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Title	Crater of Castle Geyser
Creator	Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Contributors	Department of the Interior. U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories
Date	ca. 1871-1875
Decade	1870-1879
Part Of	Les geysers d'Amerique
Page Number	p. 24
Place	Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Description	This image is part of an album that includes 26 photographs of Yellowstone geysers made by William Henry Jackson in 1871 and 1872, while the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories surveyed Yellowstone. "A view from the riverside. Here we see peculiar crystallization of the silica in large globular masses, like spongiform corals, and running off into the usual exquisite bead-work to the laminated base. The entire mound is about forty feet in height. On the right, close to its base, is a small but very active and turbulent little geyser, probably an offshoot from the greater one. In the center of the view, and the most striking object in it, is the beautiful hot spring, with elegantly carved border and water of the clearest turqois blue. It is nearly circular, about twenty-five feet in diameter, and funnel-shaped, passing down to a depth of sixty feet in the center. The water is of almost unnatural clearness, and the varying depth gives a most beautiful gradation of color. It has a constant temperature of 172 degrees." (Entry in the Descriptive catalogue of the photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1874, p. 32).
Notes	Letterhead on mount: Department of the Interior. U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories. Prof. F. V. Hayden in charge; caption on negative: 438. Crater of Castle geyser.
Related Resources	MARC record: http://libcat.smu.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=1855304
Keywords	visual arts; U.S. West; Wyoming; Yellowstone National Park; United States Geological Surveys; geysers
Subject Headings	Yellowstone National Park--Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
Physical Description	1 photographic print; albumen; 17.1 x 22.4 cm. on 27 x 35 cm. mount
Form/Genre	Photographs Photographic prints Albumen prints Landscape photographs Photograph albums
Digital Resource Type	Image
Digitization Date	Digitized: 2010
Digital Format	Displayed as .jp2; uploaded as .jpg
Archival File Resolution	Archival scan: 380 ppi
Digitization Process	Digitization process: scanned with Bookeye scanner, master file cropped to 4280 x 5702 pixels and saved as 380 ppi, 16-bit .tif; derivative resized to 3000 pixels wide and resaved as 8-bit .jpg
Call Number	Ag1982.0124x
Upload File Name	ag1982_0124x_24_crater_castle_opt.jpg
Archival File Name(s)	ag1982_0124x_24_crater_castle.tif
Archival File Path	ARCHIVE\DeGolyer\reproductions\Vault-Ag1982-0124x
Digital Collection	U.S. West: Photographs, Manuscripts, and Imprints
Library	DeGolyer Library
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	Please cite Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library when using this image file. A high-quality version of this file may be obtained for a fee by contacting degolyer@smu.edu.

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