page_title: Frank Jay Haynes
section_title: Haynes Palace Studio Car
hierarchical_section_title: Frank Jay Haynes / Haynes Studios / Haynes Palace Studio Car
caption_attribution_description: English: Interior of Haynes (Frank Jay Haynes) Palace Studio Car, Northern Pacific Railroad, 1886
context_page_description: Frank Jay Haynes, known as F. Jay or the Professor to almost all who knew him, was a professional photographer, publisher, and entrepreneur from Minnesota who played a major role in documenting through photographs the settlement and early history of the great Northwest. He became both the official photographer of the Northern Pacific Railway and of Yellowstone National Park as well as operating early transportation concessions in the park. His photographs were widely published in articles, journals, books and turned into stereographs, and postcards in the late 19th and early 20th century.
context_section_description: In 1885, F. Jay bought a Pullman Car from the Northern Pacific Railroad and had it refitted as a photographic studio. The NPR charged F. Jay a nominal fee to haul the car around the railroad system.  In 1901, the fee was $.35/mile contingent on F. Jay providing the railroad with a nominal number of free photographs of rolling stock and railroad buildings for publicity purposes. Whenever the Palace Studio Car would visit a town, F. Jay or his employees would take photos for local customers and provide them with prints on later visits. F. Jay operated the car successfully between 1885 and 1905.
caption: Interior of Haynes Palace Studio Car, 1886
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