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Henry Bird Calfee

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Henry Bird Calfee Birth: May 1847 Kentucky, USA Death: 20 Feb 1912 (aged 64) Bozeman, Gallatin County, Montana, USA Burial: Sunset Hills Cemetery Bozeman, Gallatin County, Montana, USA Memorial ID 25143125 · View Source

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25143125/henry-bird-calfee

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Adventures in Yellowstone: Early Travelers Tell Their Tales von M. Mark Miller https://books.google.de/books?id=L_xSnoYOcPgC&pg=PA80&lpg=PA80&focus=viewport&dq=%22Henry+Bird+Calfee%22&hl=de

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https://archive.org/details/montanapost1963mont/page/377

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Calfee & Catlin Stereographs, circa 1874 - circa 1881

Summary

   Henry Bird Calfee and Nelson Catlin operated a photographic studio in Bozeman, Montana, from the early 1870s through the early 1880s and published hundreds of stereographic views of Yellowstone National Park. This collection consists of 101 stereographs attributed to H. B. Calfee and Calfee & Catlin and includes images of mountains, canyons, geysers and waterfalls in Yellowstone National Park and of Indian people and camps. 

Biographical Note

Henry Bird Calfee was born January 3, 1848 in Arkansas. He came west to Montana in 1867 settled in the Bozeman area. Calfee initially made a living as an artist and later a prospector. By the early 1870s, he had opened a photography business with partner Nelson Catlin. Every summer from around 1874 through 1881, Calfee visited Yellowstone National Park to capture stereographic views of its attractions. He took almost 300 views of the newly established national park, which were sold to eager customers across the United States. Calfee also helped to name many of Yellowstone’s landmarks including Lone Star Geyser, Demon’s Cave, Pulpit Basins and Fairies’ Fall.

From 1881 through 1884, Calfee traveled around the country exhibiting nearly 200 giant views of the park. In these presentations, he used oxy-calcium light to project hand-colored lantern slides of his stereographs. His panorama of the park was entitled “Calfee’s Wonderland” and visited such cities as San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, and St. Paul. By 1895, Calfee was living in Missoula; he passed away in 1912.

Little is known about Calfee’s partner, Nelson Catlin. An 1880 census lists a Nelson Catlin living in Bozeman and working as a carpenter. By 1882, he worked as a packer and guide in Yellowstone Park, and in 1886, he applied to Yellowstone National Park to be permitted to erect a stable and corral at Mammoth Hot Springs.

Quelle: Archives West, Orbis Cascade Alliance http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv21658

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Another Bozeman photographer, Henry Bird Calfee, may have been in Yellowstone in 1871 as well, but like Crissman, Calfee is little known.3

Quelle: Thomas J. Hine – One of Yellowstone's Earliest Photographers by James S. Brust and Lee H. Whittlesey in: MONTANA THE MAGAZINE OF WESTERN HISTORY S. 16-23 Montana - The Magazin of Western History https://mhs.mt.gov/Portals/11/education/docs/CirGuides/Brust%20Yellowstone.pdf

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The other story is attributed to a Mr. J.M.V. Cochran, an eighty-four-year-old resident of Oak Grove, Oregon. He wrote:

To the best of my recollection it was in 1874 when I was out with Co. W.D. Pickett of Louisville, Kentucky, on a hunting trip. We were camped near Old Faithful Geyser. I went out hunting for bear and was on a high butte over-looking the basin when I saw the steam from a geyser above the trees and went down to it. There were game trails near but no blazed trails nor trails showing signs of having been traveled by horses, nor any signs of old campfire — in fact, nothing to show that anyone had ever been there before.

The next day I returned with Col. Pickett and took with me a board off a cracker box and nailed it up on a tree and printed on it the name “Lone Star Geyser.”

On this trip we did not see anyone in either the upper or lower basins but on the way out met Mr. Calfee and Mr. Catlan [sic] near Sulphur Mountain. They were on their way into the basins to take pictures of the geysers. I told them about the Lone Star Geyser and gave them directions how to find it from Old Faithful Geyser. If they took views, as they intended, they would be the first ever taken of Lone Star Geyser.

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Disconnect

According to Haines, although the Cochran account antecedes both Haynes and the NPRR’s account, its chronology is somewhat murky:

Cochran’s presence in the Park with Col. Pickett is confirmed by the latter’s book, Hunting At High Altitudes — but the year was 1879, not 1874 (hunting was allowed in Yellowstone until 1883). Although Henry Bird Calfee did enter Yellowstone Park as early as the summer of 1873, the period from 1877 to 1881 corresponds with his photographic activity there. Calfee’s work as known today does not include a photograph of Lone Star Geyser.

We can back up Haines’ assertion vis-à-vis Calfee and Lone Star Geyser. According to Yellowstone Stereoviews, Lone Star Geyser does not appear in any of the officials series from either “Calfee & Catlin” or “H.B. Calfee,” although it was a popular subject with other publishers.

As far as the two stories, it would be fair to say Cochran can claim bragging rights for naming it Lone Star first—but Haynes gets more credit for popularizing it.

Yellowstone History: Lone Star Geyser by Sean Reichard; August 28, 2017 on: YellowstoneInsider.com https://yellowstoneinsider.com/2017/08/28/yellowstone-history-lone-star-geyser/

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Haines Donates Calfee Stereographs to Photo Archives

Aubrey L. Haines, author of the two- volume history of Yellowstone National Park, The Yellowstone Story, (1977), recently donated to the Society’s Photo Ar¬ chives sixty-three stereographs taken in the 1870s and 1880s by Montana photo¬ grapher Henry Bird Calfee.

During the course of his research on the history of Yellowstone, Haines collected in¬ formation about and photographs by early- day photographers of the Park. Although Calfee was one among many (other early Yellowstone photographers include J. S. Crissman and W. H. Jackson of the Hay¬ den Surveys; Thomas J. Hine, Chicago; Thomas H. Rutter, Butte; and C. R. Savage, Salt Lake City) Haines quickly discovered that Calfee was a “much more important photographer” than anyone had thought. He began to collect Calfee stereographs in earnest, making possible his large donation to the Photo Archives. With the exception of a few photos of Crow Indians, the Haines donation is made up of Yellowstone scenes.

Photograph Curator Lory Morrow notes that “these priceless images are historical¬ ly significant, not only for their content, but also because relatively few of Calfee's photographs appear to have survived.”

Calfee came to Montana Territory in 1867 and for several years worked as a painter, prospector, and miner. According to M. A. Leeson’s History of Montana (1885), “Having a natural taste for art and photography [Calfee] gave his attention to that and for the past. . . years has been engaged in making sketches and views of the natural scenery in the Territory, most¬ ly in the National Park.”

A resident of Bozeman and, later, Missoula, Calfee sold all manner of art through his studios, including oil paintings, lithographs, picture frames, and his own photographs. Historian Haines notes that Calfee's stereographs were also sold through the mail and by railroad news agents on the Union Pacific Railroad. Calfee’s name also graces Yellowstone Na¬ tional Park, denoting a beautiful stream that drains into the Lamar River from the crest of the Absaroka Mountains.

Henry Bird Calfee stereograph of Grotto Geyser in Yellowstone National Park

p. 6 Quelle: Montana Post, Vol. 21, No. 3, Aug-Sept 1983, S. 6 https://archive.org/details/montanapost1963mont/page/377 https://archive.org/stream/montanapost1963mont/montanapost1963mont_djvu.txt

Quelle: https://archive.org/stream/montanapost1963mont/montanapost1963mont_djvu.txt https://archive.org/details/montanapost1963mont?q=%22Thomas+J.+Hine%22

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Die frühesten Yellowstone-Fotografen

Jackson's renown is undiminished, and he is usually cited as the first to photograph Yellowstone National Park.1 But William Henry Jackson was not the only cameraman in Yellowstone that summer. Three or four others were at work, yet they remain as obscure as Jackson is famous. Joshua Crissman, a photographer from Bozeman, Montana Territory, actually worked alongside Jackson in both 1871 and 1872, but his images never enjoyed wide distribution.2 Another Bozeman photographer, Henry Bird Calfee, may have been in Yellowstone in 1871 as well, but like Crissman, Calfee is little known.5 More enigmatic yet is Augustus F. Thrasher. He photographed Yellowstone in 1871, but not one of his Yellowstone images can be located today.4 Of all the early Yellowstone photographers who had the gold ring slip from their grasp, however, the saddest experience may be that of Thomas J. Hine.

Quelle: James S. Brust / Lee H. Whittlesey, „Thomas J. Hine – One of Yellowstone's Earliest Photographers“, in: Montana - The Magazin of Western History, S. 16-23, https://mhs.mt.gov/Portals/11/education/docs/CirGuides/Brust%20Yellowstone.pdf

Haines Donates Calfee Stereographs to Photo Archives

Aubrey L. Haines, author of the two-volume history of Yellowstone National Park, The Yellowstone Story, (1977), recently donated to the Society’s Photo Archives sixty-three stereographs taken in the 1870s and 1880s by Montana photographer Henry Bird Calfee.

During the course of his research on the history of Yellowstone, Haines collected information about and photographs by early-day photographers of the Park. Although Calfee was one among many (other early Yellowstone photographers include J. S. Crissman and W. H. Jackson of the Hayden Surveys; Thomas J. Hine, Chicago; Thomas H. Rutter, Butte; and C. R. Savage, Salt Lake City) Haines quickly discovered that Calfee was a “much more important photographer” than anyone had thought.

Quelle: Montana Post, Vol. 21, No. 3, Aug-Sept 1983, S. 6 https://archive.org/details/montanapost1963mont/page/377 https://archive.org/stream/montanapost1963mont/montanapost1963mont_djvu.txt

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