Journey through the Yellowstone National Park and northwestern Wyoming 1883. photographs of party and scenery along the route traveled and copies of the Associated Press dispatches sent whilst en route

Photographs created by F. Jay Haynes that document an excursion by President Chester A. Arthur through northwestern Wyoming to Yellowstone National Park in August 1883. Published dispatches distributed by the Associated Press about the journey are interleaved between the photographic prints on separate mounts

The party included Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States; Robert T. Lincoln, Secretary of War; Philip H. Sheridan, Lieutenant General; George G. Vest, United States Senator; Daniel G. Rollins, Surrogate of New York County, New York; Anson Stager, Brigadier General, United States Volunteers; John Schuyler Crosby, Governor of Montana; Michael V. Sheridan, Lieutenant Colonel and Military Secretary; James F. Gregory, Lieutenant Colonel and Aide-de-Camp; William P. Clark, Captain, Second Cavalry, Acting Aide-de-Camp; William Henry Forwood, Surgeon, United States Army; George G. Vest, Jr., Saint Louis, Missouri; and escorts from Troop G of the Fifth Cavalry, consisting of Captain Edward M. Hayes and Lieutenant Henry De H. Waite

Views along the route include Fort Washakie, the Wind River Valley, the Snake River Valley, Gros Ventre River, the Grand Tetons, and the Gros Ventre range

Images of Yellowstone show geysers; waterfalls; Yellowstone Lake; Mammoth Hot Springs; and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

Images depict camp sites along the route, some portraits of Shoshoni and Arapaho Indians, and two group portraits of Arthur with members of his party