Stereocard, half Archive Farms Notes: Jackson is on the right. Other version has on mount: Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories, Prof. F.V. Hayden in charge. Views among the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, W.H. Jackson, Photographer. In 1870 Jackson accompanied geologist Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden on an expedition across Wyoming, along the Green River, and eventually into the Yellowstone Lake area. Jackson's images were the first published photographs of Yellowstone. Partly on the strength of these photographs, the area became America's first national park in March 1872.
