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| National Park Archivist Anne Foster stands among rows of historic documents stored in the archives at the Park's Heritage and Research Center in Gardiner, Mont. Photo: Justin Post/Livingston Enterprise via AP |
“Most people just see rows of plain gray boxes, but to me they’re beautiful because they show how organized and preserved the documents are,” Foster told The Livingston Enterprise.
Foster has served as Yellowstone’s archivist for the past nearly 10 years in what she calls her “dream job.” The Bozeman native’s love for the park and its history is apparent when you join her in a tour of Yellowstone’s Heritage and Research Center, which houses the archives just inside the Park boundary in the shadow of Roosevelt Arch at Gardiner.
Here you’ll find documents bearing the signature of Theodore Roosevelt as well as the first written account of someone traveling through the Park in the 1820s — long before it became the Yellowstone National Park...
Documents stored at the archives are ones deemed to be administratively or historically significant to the park’s history. In today’s electronic era, Foster said digital records are also stored using an archival computer server. She’s also in the process of sorting through and cataloging film reels, which will be digitized and eventually stored in the building’s vault.
Paper documents are catalogued and stored in boxes in a large temperature- and humidity-controlled room at the archives. Some documents have been scanned and are available for review in digital format...
For more information about the Heritage and Research Center at Yellowstone National Park, visit https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/historyculture/collections.htm
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Source: Torrington Register Citizen
