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This collection of booklets relates to tourism in Yellowstone and dude ranches in Wyoming These booklets are representations of tourism to Wyoming in the early 20th century. They contain pictures and descriptions of Yellowstone and dude ranches.

Collection consists of various published images of western scenes cut out of various publications, including Picturesque and Marvels of the New World, as well as French and German language books and newspapers. The plates represent scenes from the American west and give a good indication of how the United States was pictured in the mid-nineteenth century.

The collection is a set of 35 black and white photographs taken by Jack Ellis Haynes. They are pictures of the park and the wildlife in the park.

The John Rumm collection is made up of photographs of Yellowstone by Hiscock and Lucier. John Rumm was the curator of the Buffalo Bill Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West between the years of 2008-2014.

This collection is the 2001 issue of Yellowstone Resources and Issues book. This book is "an annual compendium of information about Yellowstone National Park." This booklet is a great snapshot of seeing what the park was like in 2001.

This collection holds Yellowstone ephemera from the early 1900s, including a decal from the Shaw & Powell Camping Co. and postcards from seemingly the early 20th century. These pieces show a glimpse of what some of the pieces making up the park would have been during this time.

The collection contains a narrative poem, photographic album, and seperate photographs. Edward Traynor's grandfather, Fredrick Hamilton Redington, took the photographs in the album from 1905 on his annual summer trip to Yellowstone. The family made a summer trip out to Yellowstone yearly, because Redington's first wife, Phoebe Hargraves, was from Cody.

This collection is a family photo album from between 1922-1925. The photographs are of a girls' trip out to Yellowstone, where they lived and worked for a summer. There are also a couple of newspaper clippings and decals from Yellowstone in the book. The photographs show what it was like to work and live in Yellowstone during the early 20th century. Some interesting pictures are of bears eating out of the dump that was there until the 1960s and pictures of old bus parts at Mammoth.

The collection includes a photo album from a 1937 road trip from Toledo, Ohio to Yellowstone Park. Some interesting photos in the album include Mount Rushmore in its final stages of construction, dude ranches, and Yellowstone Park. This documents what one would have seen on a cross country road trip during 1937.

George Allen Dean was born on April 9, 1881 in Dedham, Massachusetts. During the summer of 1903 he came out to Yellowstone Park to travel and work. This collection includes photos, a journal, and letters to his mother from summer of 1903. The collection also has a photo album with pictures between the years of 1900 and 1904.