[Photographs of Wyoming sites and fossils].

Wyoming, [circa 1912]

17 photographs : gelatin silver prints ; sheets 13 x 18 cm

Gift of Michael Vinson, 2017.

This material is open for research.

William Harlow Reed (1848-1915) was head of the Department of Paleontology at the University of Wyoming in the early 1900s, and curated the university’s paleontological museum from 1899 to 1915. In 1887, Reed discovered fossilized dinosaur bones near Como Bluff, Wyoming, while acting as section foreman for the Union Pacific Railroad.

Photographs taken by geologist and paleontologist William Harlow Reed of Wyoming landscapes and fossils, circa 1912. Depicted are sites near Laramie and Carbon County, bones in the University of Wyoming laboratory, the university’s paleontological museum, Reed with “the largest right hind leg of Dinosaur mounted in any museum in the world”, and 2 photographs of a paleontological excavation. There is also a photograph of Reed’s 1912 geology class with students identified in manuscript on the verso.

English

October 25, 2019

William Harlow Reed, Photographs of Wyoming Sites and Fossils. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

William Harlow Reed, Photographs of Wyoming Sites and Fossils. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.