The Yellowstone

Description

Title: The Yellowstone
Creator: Reagles, Walter J.
Contributor: Reagles, Walter J.--Pictorial works.
Published / Created: 1904
Abstract: Captioned watercolor and pen and ink drawings of scenery and fellow visitors in Yellowstone National Park. A small watercolor and a quote regarding Yellowstone by Rudyard Kipling appear on the first page. The illustrated cover and nine drawings are bound together with ribbon. Accompanied by four photographs of Walter Reagles in separate folder.
Description: Purchased from Margolis & Moss on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1992.
Son of James Reagles, a member of the Snake River Division of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories in the 1870s. In 1904, Walter accompanied his father on a return trip to Yellowstone and documented his visit with watercolor and pen and ink drawings. He later became a professional illustrator and was a member of the Art Directors Club of New York.
Versos blank, not digitized.
Extent: 1 v. ([10] p.) ; 24 x 31 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Drawings--United States.
Photographic prints--United States.
Watercolors--United States.
Resource Type: Paintings & Drawings
Subject (Geographic): Wyoming--Pictorial works.
Yellowstone National Park--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name): Reagles, Walter J.--Pictorial works.

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Walter Reagles, The Yellowstone. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.