The Yellowstone National Park Archives' Manuscript Collections contain documents, photos, and ephemera donated by visitors, researchers, and others. The collection is particularly strong in topics such as tourism, concessioners, and photographs.
Search the collections listed below by subject on the Yellowstone Research Library catalog . Official records of the Park are detailed on the Yellowstone's Archives  webpage.
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Online Collections  
Selected portions of our records have been digitized and placed online. This is an ongoing project. 
Montana Memory Project:  Collections include Superintendent's Annual and Monthly reports, maps and drawings, oral histories, and photographs. 
Open Parks Network:  Historic photographs taken by the Park's official photographers and gathered together into thematic albums in the mid-20th century. 
Historic Slide File:  Historic photographs from the museum collection organized by era and then by topic.
Using the Archives 
See the Archives homepage  for detailed information about hours, access policies, and other ways to search our collections.
Manuscripts  
1988 Fire 25th Anniversary Oral History Project, 2014  
1988 Fire Photographs Collection, 1988  
A. A. Anderson Papers 1903-1906, 1927  
Adrienne Bush Scrapbook, 1923  
Albert and Flossie Smith Papers, 1914, circa 1990  
Albin Family Photograph Album, 1902  
Alice C. and Paul L. Albright, Sr. Photographs, 1940s  
Alice & Floyd Bloom Photographs and Films, 1952-1962  
Arthur B. Smith Letters, 1904, circa 1950  
Arthur D. Howard Yellowstone Research Papers, circa 1935, 1950  
Ashley B. Gurney Grasshopper Glacier Research, 1952-1953  
Augspurger Family Papers, circa 1940s  
August and Gertrude Godina Photograph Album ca. 1917  
Bear Creek Council (Gardiner, Mont.) Records, 1997-2012, 2020  
Beartooth Alliance (Cooke city, Mont.) Records, 1991-1996, 2006  
B. J. Earle Scrapbook and Photographs, 1966, circa 1990s-2000s  
Bloom Bros. Co. Photograph Album, ca. 1950  
Boyd McKeown Photograph Album  
Brenda Chambers Papers, 1940-2003  
Buelah Randolph Scrapbook, 1923  
Catherine "Kay" Horan Brady Photographs, 1929  
Caustin Family Photographs 1941-1949  
C. J. (Buffalo) Jones Papers 1904-1914?  
Cecilia Engel Scrapbook, 1924  
Charles D. Herbert Films & Photographs, 1930s  
Charles E. Campbell CCC Photograph Album, circa 1935  
Charles H.M. Bambach Photographs 1904-1905  
Charles Marland Glazier Collection, 1927-1939  
Charles O. Williamson Collection, circa 1918  
Charles P. Harmon Photographs, 1930s  
Chidwick-Ernsperger-Spangelo Family Photographs, 1919-1928  
Chittenden-Cress Family Papers, 1920s-1960s  
Church Committee Records, 1948-present  
Clarice Gores Albums & Diary, 1949-1950  
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Documentation Project, 1935-2001  
Concessioner Autograph Albums Collection, 1920s-1950s  
Dale H. Nuss Papers 1963-1975  
Daniel Trotter Potts Letters, 1824-1827, 1948  
Dan Krapf Papers, circa 1890s-2010s  
David R. Toeppen Slide Collection 1948  
David Stempien Photographs, 1976  
Delmar Family Photograph Albums, 1905-circa 1930, 1976, 1991  
Dorothy & Harry B. Goodspeed Scrapbook 1937  
Dorothy Brown Pardo Narrative, 1911  
Dr. Robert B. "Bob" Smith Photographs, 1984, 2018  
Edward Calvert Photograph Album, 1898-1900  
Edward E. Midgely Papers, 1931-1936  
Edward H. Rynearson Yellowstone Papers, 1965-1986  
Electric Peak Arts Council (Gardiner, Montana) Records,  1999- 
Elmer August Richter Photographs, 1927-1931  
Elmer Lindsley Papers  
Entre Nous (Gardiner, Montana) Records,  circa 1940-2010 
Eva K. Moger Diary 1896  
F.E. Stratton Family Papers, 1895-June-1895 July   
Fire Lookout Rephotography Project Papers 1935-1936, 2007  
Frank Collins Photographs, 1940s-1972  
Frank H. Rose Diary, 1957  
Frank Sincock Photographs, 1924-1926  
Fraternal Order of Eagles, Aerie #669 (Gardiner, MT) Records, 1904-2009   
Frederick A. Todd Papers, circa 1917-circa 1937  
Fred H. McClure Photograph Album, circa 1895  
Fuhrman-Baumgartner Photograph Albums 1919-1924  
Gardiner Community Church Records, 1940s-1980s  
Gardiner Community Theater Records, circa 1995-2018  
Gateway Communities History Collection, 1890-circa 1975  
Geiger Family Photographs, 1936  
Gerald E. Mernin Papers 1924-2010 (bulk dates: 1965-2001)  
George Bellerose Photographs, 1988-1989  
George W. Burch Family Photographs, circa 1913  
George W. Miller, Sr. Papers, 1925-1938  
Geyser Observation and Study Association Listserv Records 1995-2016  
Gillson Family Photographs 1901  
Greater Yellowstone Conservation Data Center Records 1887 – 2005 (bulk dates: 1977-1993)  
Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee Records 1977-2009  (bulk dates: 1985-1992) 
Grindle-Hecox-Merrick-Knight Family Papers, 1903-1988  
Haynes Picture Shops Photographs and Memorabilia Collection, 1883-circa 1962  
H.E. Stork Photograph Album 1927  
Henderson-Ash Family Papers 1873-2002 (bulk dates: 1885-1905)   
Henry D. Washburn Papers, 1853-1872, 1964  
Herma Albertson Baggley Papers, 1927-1957  
Hide Family Photographs, circa 1945  
Hilliard Gamble Photograph Album, 1923  
Horace M. Albright Papers, 1911-1986 (bulk dates: 1940-1945)  
Howard C. Krueger Photograph Album 1931  
H. T. Nelson Photographs, circa 1925  
Jack Hervat Photograph Album, 1923, circa 1985  
Jacob P. Darmstadt Photographs and Letter, 1887-1917  
James Ardell Van Voorhis Photographs, 1931  
Janet & Elliot C. Barnes Photograph Albums, 1902  
John Bauman Photographs, 1930-circa 1950  
John Burger Photographs 1959-2006 (bulk dates: 1959-1968)  
John Findlay Litsey Photograph Album, 1938  
John W. Scott Surveys, circa 1930, 1960  
Judge John Meldrum Papers, 1908-1938  
Katherine Holland Photograph Album 1936-1938  
Kathy Russell Papers, 1968-2022  
Katie L. Rhoads Scrapbooks, 1995  
Leah and Walter Oehrle Photograph Album, 1933  
Lee Coleman Papers 1930-1977  
Lee Silliman Photographs, circa 1900-2004  
Lee Whittlesey Yellowstone Oral Histories, 1990s-2010s  
Link-Lauer-Thomas Family Papers ca. 1890-2008 (bulk dates:  1920s-1960s)   
Little People"s Learning Center Records  1980s, 2008-2010  
Lt. Everett Judson Papers, 1918  
Lt. J. F. Cummings Papers, 1881  
Loesch Family Papers, 1904, 1934   
Long, Long Trail Narrative, 1924  
Mammoth Community Library Records, 1940-2003    
Margaret Ahern Wertman Papers, ca. 1930   
Margaret McCartney Family Photograph AlbumCirca 1907-Circa 1930     
Marion Anna Sherwin Chapman Memoir and Photographs, 1904, circa 1990  
Marion Dyer Travel Diary 1919   
Marjane Ambler Interior Park Employees Oral Histories  
Martin A. McDonough Scrapbook, 1947-1953  
Mary Blanche Potter (Wells) Photograph Album, 1940-2003  
Mary Lou & Bob Perkins 1959 Earthquake Papers, 1959-1970  
Mary Wilson Orton Films & Photographs  
Mayme and George Dallas Family Photographs, circa 1915-1920s  
Merle Janice Schroeder Papers, 1936-1939  
Merril F. Daum Photographs, 1920s  
Milton P. Skinner Papers, Circa 1900-1937, 1955  
Mode Wineman Manuscripts, 1908  
Mr. & Mrs. G. A. Platz Photograph Album Circa 1925  
Myron W. Griswold Papers, 1935-1936  
Nancy Derevjanik Papers, 1981, 2007  
Nellie Burlingame Travel Diary & Ephemera, 1912  
O. A. Tomlinson Collection on T. E. "Uncle Bill" Hofer, 1923-1933  
Olson Family Papers, circa 1960s-circa 1970s  
OTO Ranch  
Pack Rats of Old Faithful Photograph Album, 1924  
Park to Paradise Triathlon (Gardiner, Montana) Records, 1981-2014  
Paul R. Needham Photographs, 1923  
Percival Sargeant Goan Photographs, 1914-1915  
President Arthur's Pictures 1883  
Rexford Sheild Papers, 1910s, 1960  
Richmond Family Papers 1913-1915, 1929  
Robert "Bob" Flather Research Papers 1870-2009 (bulk dates: 1884-2005)   
Robert "Bob" Haraden Oral Histories and Papers  
Robert Coffey Photograph Album ca. 1924-1928  
Robin L. Smith Research Files, 1988  
Rose Polich Photograph Album 1932-circa 1950 (bulk dates: 1932)  
Ruth Phillips Photograph Album circa 1921  
Sagebrushers in Yellowstone Photographs circa 1915  
Sandy and Robert Godsey Papers, 1950, 2014  
Scotty Chapman Diary, 1941-1965  
Selwyn D. Smith Sr. Photograph Album, 1930s  
Simmons Family 1959 Earthquake Collection 1959   
Smith Family Photograph Album ca. 1907  
T. Eugene Young Papers, 1937-1941  
Third View Photographs 1872-1883, 1978, 2000  
Thomas Franklin Matson CCC Photograph Albums, 1939-1940  
Tinker Hill / Gardiner Cemetery Collection, circa 2000-present  
Tom Murphy Photographs 1979-1994  
Tramps, Camps, and Wonders Photograph Album, circa 1903  
Trip To Yellowstone Collection circa 1890-Present (bulk dates: 1920s-1960s)  
Truman W. Ingersoll Yellowstone Photographs, circa 1910  
Tulio Zanin CCC Papers, 1938  
Uncle Bob Photograph Album 1898  
Vera and Henry Grater Papers, 1919-1921  
Virginia and John Russ Photographs, 1940s-1960s  
Vera Chamberlin Theiler Photograph Album, circa 1922-1925, 2021  
Wayne B. Alcorn Papers, 1935-1949  
W.H. Banks Photographs 1893   
W. Verde Watson Papers 1935-1963 (bulk dates: 1935-ca. 1955)  
William Chester Myers Papers, 1913  
William Elmer Rounds Photograph Album ca. 1920  
William F. Whalen Papers, 1905  
William H. Hendrickson Slides, 1967-1970, 2020  
William J. Barmore, 1915-1979  
William J. Kelley Photographs, 1935-1936  
William L. Kearns Photographs and Reminiscence, circa 1935, 2011  
William Wiggins Papers, 1930-1931  
Working in Yellowstone Collection, circa 1900-2000s  
Xanterra Parks and Resorts Collection 1980-Present  
Yellowstone and the Biology of Time Rephotography Project 1871-1992    
Yellowstone CO-OP Employee Recreation Program Records 1982-2010   
Yellowstone Employee Oral History Interviews, 1990s-2020s  
Yellowstone Federal Employees Association Records ca. 1986-2008 (bulk dates: 1996-2008)  
Yellowstone Marriages Project Oral Histories, 2008  
Yellowstone National Art Trust Records, 2001-2004  
Yellowstone National Park School Records 1921-2008 (bulk dates: 1980s-2005)  
Yellowstone National Park Winter Game Range Grazing History, circa 1992  
Yellowstone Park Company Records 1884-1979 (bulk dates: 1927-1964)   
Yellowstone Park Entertainment Club Records, 1909-1922  
Yellowstone Park Foundation  1993-2010  
Yellowstone Ski Association Records 1941-1994 (bulk dates: 1961-1986)  
Yellowstone Women's Organization Records, 1968-1988  
 
Contact Information: 
Archivist  
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Mailing Address:  
Yellowstone National Park Archives 
PO Box 168 
Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190