A President in Yellowstone: The F. Jay Haynes Photographic Album of Chester Arthur’s 1883 Expedition

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By Frank H. Goodyear III ’89

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(University of Oklahoma Press) Eleven years after the founding of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, President Chester A. Arthur became the first president to travel as far west as Yellowstone. Goodyear exhibits the photography of Frank Jay Haynes, the young photographer who joined the president. After serving as curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, Goodyear took on his current position, co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

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