id:			156532
accession number:	1992.242
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updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:14.587000

Hell's Half Acre, Prismatic Springs, c. late 1880s. Frank Jay Haynes (American, 1853–1921). Albumen print from glass negative; image: 44.7 x 54.5 cm (17 5/8 x 21 7/16 in.); paper: 45 x 55.1 cm (17 11/16 x 21 11/16 in.); matted: 61 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund 1992.242

title:				Hell's Half Acre, Prismatic Springs
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creation date:			c. late 1880s
creation date earliest:		1885
creation date latest:		1889
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creditline:			Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund
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culture:	America, 19th century
technique:	albumen print from glass negative
department:	Photography
collection:	Photography
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Frank Jay Haynes (American, 1853–1921)  - artist
Frank Jay Haynes American, 1853-1921

A member of the second generation of photographers of western American landscape and railroads, Frank Jay Haynes is often grouped with those who came to the West much earlier. Stylistically and technically, however, as well as in terms of his approach to his subject, he is closer in outlook to the 20th century than to the 19th.
	Born in Saline, Michigan, Haynes worked in 1874 in Ann Arbor and Wisconsin, and in 1875 at the "Temple of Photography" of a "Dr." William Lockwood. He opened his own studio the following year in Moorehead, Minnesota, and another in 1879 in Fargo, Dakota Territory. In 1876 he was appointed official photographer of the Northern Pacific Railroad, a position he held for 30 years. Beginning in the early 1880s, Haynes worked in Yellowstone National Park, where after 1884 he was its official, though self-employed, photographer. A 8,235-foot mountain peak in the park was named as a memorial for him after his death.
	In 1891 the Puget Sound & Alaska Steamship Co. commissioned Haynes to photograph the sea journey from Tacoma, Washington, to Glacier Bay, Alaska. From 1885-1905 his mobile Haynes' Palace Studio Car operated along the various lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He later moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he established another studio. Haynes retired in 1916; his son, also a photographer, eventually continued the family business. T.W.F.
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measurements: Image: 44.7 x 54.5 cm (17 5/8 x 21 7/16 in.); Paper: 45 x 55.1 cm (17 11/16 x 21 11/16 in.); Matted: 61 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in negative: "No. 3110 HELL'S HALF ACRE, Prismatic Springs / F. J. HAYNES, FARGO, D.T."
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Selected Acquisitions
	opening date:   1993-02-09T05:00:00
	<i>Selected Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).

	title:		Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   1996-11-24T05:00:00
	<i>Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).

	title:		Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2007-06-24T00:00:00
	<i>Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007); Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA (October 3, 2009-January 3, 2010).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA, January 28 - March 15, 1992: "Selected Acquisitions," CMA Bulletin, 80 (February 1993), p. 68, no. 100.', 'opening_date': '1992-01-28T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, January 14 - March 27, 1994: "Land of Sky and Water: 19th Century Photographs of the American West," no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '1994-01-14T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."', 'opening_date': '1997-02-02T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07) and Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittburgh, PA (10/3/2009 - 1/3/2010); "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art", no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '2007-06-24T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	The family of the Artist
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 194
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IMAGES

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