Frank Jay Haynes (1853-1921), Cone of Giant Geyser

Frank Jay Haynes (1853-1921)Cone of Giant GeyserYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARKNumber 31 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 celebrated Giant geyser in Yellowstone National Park, by official Yellowstone Park photographer Frank Jay Haynes. In 1870 the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition explored the Upper Geyser Basin and observed geysers erupting, they named seven geysers in the basin, including this Giant: "The Giant" has a rugged crater, ten feet in diameter on the outside, with an irregular orifice five or six feet in diameter. It discharges a vast body of water, and the only time we saw it in eruption the flow of water in a column five feet in diameter, and one hundred and forty feet in vertical height, continued uninterruptedly for nearly three hours. The crater res