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Wild elk at Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park – Antique Print

Wild elk at Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park, c1907. — historic photograph
Wild elk at Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park, c1907.. Historic photograph from the Yellowstone collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Wild elk at Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park

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Wild elk graze in the meadows near Tower Falls, in the northeastern corner of Yellowstone National Park. Around 1907 the Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that sold travel views to tourists and railroad passengers, was documenting the park's scenery and wildlife. This image is a large-format glass dry plate negative, 8 by 10 inches, which allowed the company to make detailed prints. Pictures like this show how wildlife was one of Yellowstone's main attractions in the early twentieth century, when visitors came hoping to see animals in the open.

Created / publishedc1907.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30598. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019789. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsNational parks & reserves. Elk.United States--Wyoming--Yellowstone National Park.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-63123

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