Camp scene. Wyoming. 1870.

Album caption: Stevenson, Turnbull, Elliott, Beaman, "Potato John" (cook). 1870. Note: "Potato John" is seated in the right foreground. Notes on album caption: None. Index card: Jackson, W. H. 896 (portraits) - "Potatoe John" - Stevenson, Turnbull, Elliott, Branson, "Potatoe John" (cook). 1870. (Stereo view available on photo 1674 or jwh01674.) Descriptive Catalog of the Photographs of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, W. H. Jackson, Photographer, Second Edition, Illustrated, 1870 Series, page 21, No. 303: Members of the survey in camp at Red Buttes. Handwritten notes on back of duplicate photograph: HS-896. The men are preparing their bird specimens after a days work in the field by the light of [...]