[Geysers] Scavenger hunting

[Ott, Stephen]

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With more and more people scanning their old photos and slides and putting them online, I've found that there's a pretty good number of interesting old Yellowstone pictures entering the mix.  Some examples from Google's Picasa, found by entering things like "Yellowstone 1945" in the search bar (you may need to be logged into a Google account to see some of these):

I'm not sure what this one is of, but the surroundings say "Norris" to me (1950):
http://picasaweb.google.com/blbullo/BeckBW203#5451501183292654594

>From the same user, Castle in 1950;
http://picasaweb.google.com/blbullo/BECKBW221#5452638415094263170

The Giant group in 1952:
http://picasaweb.google.com/TennisSenior/YellowstoneGrandTetons#5112033211278936386

Scroll to the bottom of this index for a set of slides from the 50s including the one above:
http://picasaweb.google.com/TennisSenior/YellowstoneGrandTetons#

I _think_ this is along the road that no longer goes through Potts Hot Springs:
http://picasaweb.google.com/nicksworld54/Slides4#5163656368994883138

Yes, definitely the old road through Potts Hot Spring Basin, in what we call the "Empty Hole Group".  The boardwalk was removed between 1966 and 1968.  Photo 80 in this set is a large pool that is cooler now with lower water level.  I can't identify the pool/spring in image 79, but whichever feature it is, the temperature is lower now.  Photo 81 of the set is Twin Geyser.

The set including the previous photo (a few other Yellowstone pics in there):
http://picasaweb.google.com/nicksworld54/Slides4#

I guess this in King Geyser at West Thumb in 1956? (click "View All" to see the rest of the album):
http://picasaweb.google.com/ThornsC/GreatCravenTrip1956YellowstoneTeton#5416973603611478482

Drive-up Old Faithful in 1957:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?q=1957+yellowstone&uname=ThornsC&psc=G&filter=1#5350267327695850754

A gallery from 1958 including Grotto ie, Giant, various terraces, Valentine, and the Fountain area, among other things:
http://picasaweb.google.com/tomplehal/BEBlackHillsYellowstoneJackson1958#

I *think* this is inspiration point before it fell into the canyon?  Or not?:
http://picasaweb.google.com/jeananderson66/1958MostlyYellowstone#5440575042890113554

This definitely is the old Inspiration Point--it used to have a much better view of the lower falls than the remnant there today!


There was a trail to the other side of the brink of the Lower Falls? (1958):
http://picasaweb.google.com/jeananderson66/1958MostlyYellowstone#5440575402580653858

I wonder if it was part of Uncle Tom's Trail?

A gallery of obscure locations immediately after the Hebgen Lake earthquake:
http://picasaweb.google.com/AlanandJeanie/YellowstoneEarthquake#

Photos from around West Yellowstone after the earthquake:
http://picasaweb.google.com/mkhodges/HebgenLakeEarthquake#

Yellowstone starts at photo number 877 in this gallery from 1948, which includes photos of Mammoth, Norris, the canyon, and the lobby of the ill-fated Canyon Hotel:
http://picasaweb.google.com/JKatcoff/SKTheWest1948Part1Of2#5466657504251832642

A Viewmaster reel from 1945:
http://picasaweb.google.com/1966Corsa180/129YellowstoneNationalPark1945#

Maybe Jewel?  Not sure.  1945:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?q=1945+yellowstone&uname=ThornsC&psc=G&filter=1#5146275779234541842

I think it is Jewel also.

The Fountain Group in 1967:
http://picasaweb.google.com/bchofstra/1967Vacation#5433858513893673618

A _bunch_ of old slides, undated:
http://picasaweb.google.com/holmes.shirley2/YELLOWSTONESLIDETRAY1234#

...including this one of the old road by Porcelain Basin:
http://picasaweb.google.com/holmes.shirley2/YELLOWSTONESLIDETRAY1234#5310144155004891794

Main St., Dubois, WY, 1954:
http://picasaweb.google.com/philacres100/WyomingAndWest1954#5401505553114160370

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Anyway, you get the idea.  I've gotten similar results from Flickr, and I imagine the same would be true for any of the other photo sharing web sites out there.  Sooner or later, something really unusual is bound to show up from someone's old slide file or photo album.

Along those lines, part of the reason I do searches like this every so often is because there are features that I've found it very hard to find pictures of online (or otherwise, for that matter).  Pretty much anything that happened after the advent of digital cameras, no matter how rare, is out there, but a lot of older activity isn't.  So, out of curiosity, does anyone have at easy reach a digital copy of:

Eruption photos of:

Bench Geyser
Myriad Geyser
Round Geyser
Abuse Spring
Spectacle Geyser
Turtle Geyser (more than the 1-2' bipping it did during Giant in 2006-'07)
A Chain Lake besides Link
Green Spring
Jelly Geyser
Mastiff being 1950s-style big (100ish+ feet) (I think there were a few since the '50s?)
Resurgent Geyser
Daisy's Thief
Crack Geyser
Eclipse Geyser
"Coronet" Geyser
"Slot" Geyser
Silver Spring
East Sentinel early in an eruption (when it's still big and vertical)
Pinwheel Geyser
Thumb Geyser
King Geyser
Silver Globe "Pool"

A photo of:

Norris Pool when it was still a small pool of boiling muddy water (before it expanded into a full-fledged mudpot in 1995)
East Triplet during the brief period it was cleared in the 1980s
The parking lot at Daisy Geyser
The developed area at West Thumb before it was removed


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Finally, nothing to do with photos, but, starting about 15 years ago, I maintained an online list of eruptions of Giant since it went dormant in 1955.  I stopped maintaining it after the 1996-1998 active phase, and my copy went away when my college web site was wiped after I graduated.  I think I remember that someone, maybe several someones, kept updating it, though, and I was wondering if there's a current version out there somewhere?  Googling hasn't yielded any results.

David Schwarz