Frank Jay Haynes (1853-1921), Castle and Bee Hive Geysers
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Frank Jay Haynes (1853-1921), Castle and Bee Hive Geysers

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Frank Jay Haynes (1853-1921)Castle and Bee Hive GeysersYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARKNumber 38 penciled lower left-hand cornerFine albumen print, mounted on archival mattePhotograph size: 5 x 8 in.Matte board size: 11 x14 in.   Provenance: from the library of William E. Hofman, his sale Christie's 3rd December, 2010, lot 343A magnificent view of the cone of the celebrated Castle geyser with the Bee Hive geyser in the background in Yellowstone National Park, by official Yellowstone Park photographer Frank Jay Haynes. Members of the 1870 Langford-Doane Expedition named the Castle geyser for the "resemblance to the ruins of an old castle." The large sinter cone is nearly 12 feet high with a diameter of 20 feet at the top. Castle was an irregular geyser, with periods of dormancy, before the 1959 earthquake. Since the earthquake, it has been a regular, easily predictable geyser. The water phase of an eruption lasts about 15 minutes and a steam phase, similar to a steam locomotive, lasting an add

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