Hell's Half Acre, Prismatic Springs
c. late 1880s
Medium
albumen print from glass negative
Dimensions
image: 44.7 × 54.5 cm · matted: 61 × 76.2 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund
Accession Number
1992.242
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About this artwork
Frank Jay Haynes was a photographer of life in the American West and the early days of Yellowstone National Park. Arriving in Yellowstone in the 1880s, he accompanied expeditions into the park, serving as official photographer. From canyon bottoms to mountain peaks, Haynes took his cameras to locations where he could capture unique and artistic views. In this photograph, he documented the immense space of the landscape, made particularly apparent by the inclusion of a small figure standing on th...