F. Jay Haynes and Bro. Photograph Collection, ca. 1891

Collection

Identifier: PCA 456

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Album 1 contains 24, 5 x 8 in. black and white photographs of Fort Wrangell, totem poles, Muir Glacier, Davidson Glacier, Pattison Glacier, Sitka, Juneau, and Treadwell Mine on Douglas Island. The album was photographed and published by F. Jay Haynes and Bro., St. Paul, Minnesota. A hand-written index is bound into the front of the album.

Dates

ca, 1891

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is available for viewing, however, the photographs may not be photocopied.

Conditions Governing Use

Request for permission to publish or reproduce material from the Collection should be discussed with the Librarian.

Biographical / Historical

F. Jay Haynes was born in Saline, Michigan Oct. 28, 1853. His first studio was in Moorhead, Minnesota (1876) and from there he traveled 400 mile by stagecoach taking photographs of South Dakota. In 1879 he opened a larger studio in Fargo. Later he moved to St. Paul. He became Northern Pacific Railroad’s official photographer around 1883 and outfitted a train car with his studio, taking photographs from the West Coast to Chicago. He is well known for his photographs of Yellowstone National Park. When he traveled to Alaska in 1891, he gained further recognition for his glacier photographs. He died March 10, 1921 in St. Paul, Minnesota.

His brother, Frederick E. Haynes, born in 1881, was official photographer for the St. Paul, Minneapolis, Manitoba Railway. [From: Institute for Regional Studies’ Photographers of N.D. Exhibition, North Dakota State University http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/ Accessed 15 July 2005]

Extent

1 Volumes : 1 album (25 photographs, black and white) ; 6 glass lantern slides

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The album was purchased from Robert Kolbe, of Kolbe’s Antiques, Books and Clocks, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, July, 2005. (Acc. No. 2005-27) Six lantern slides were purchased from Kolbe’s Antiques in 2006. (acc. No. 2006-06)

Processing Information

The photographs are mounted in boards, sewn into the leather-bound album. No conservation work was needed. The album is stored in acid-neutral housing.

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Finding aid for the F. Jay Haynes and Bro. Photograph Collection, ca. 1891
Status: In Progress
Author: Processed by: Anne Laura Wood July 15, 2005 ; Revised: James Simard February 7, 2007 ; Revised 3/11 jas ; ArchivesSpace finding aid by: Sandy Johnston
Date: 2019 June
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: Undetermined
Script of description: Code for undetermined script
Language of description note: English