[WESTERN AMERICANA] -- [RAILROAD]. HAYNES, F. Jay (1853-1921), photographer. N.P. Observation Car. Moorhead, MN.

6 x 3 5/8 in. stereoview on cardstock mount (even toning, light spotting/staining, loss to lower right edge of left print; soiling, edge and corner wear to mount). Recto with F. Jay Haynes' imprint, verso with Haynes' "Scenery Along the Line of the Northern Pacific Rail Road" imprint with the title and image number accomplished in manuscript: "N.P. Observation Car" and "31" respectively.

A view of wealthy hunters Henry Houghton & Jerome Marble from Massachusetts posed before a "Hunting-Observation" car of their own design, with women and children from the expedition standing on the platform. The group traveled to the newly plowed Red River Valley in 1876. Illustrated in Following the Frontier with F. Jay Haynes, Pioneer Photographer of the Old West, by Freeman Tilden, p. 90.

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[WESTERN AMERICANA] -- [RAILROAD]. HAYNES, F. Jay (1853-1921), photographer. N.P. Observation Car. Moorhead, MN.

American Historical Ephemera & Photography

[WESTERN AMERICANA] -- [RAILROAD]. HAYNES, F. Jay (1853-1921), photographer. N.P. Observation Car. Moorhead, MN.

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