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Yellowstone National Park, Northern Pacific Railroad – Vintage Wall Art

Yellowstone National Park, Northern Pacific Railroad, 1895 — historic image
Yellowstone National Park, Northern Pacific Railroad, 1895. Historic image from the Yellowstone collection.

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A window into the past: Yellowstone National Park, Northern Pacific Railroad, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Yellowstone National Park, Northern Pacific Railroad

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Railroad promotion shaped how many Americans first pictured Yellowstone, and this 1895 map presents the park as a destination reached by train rather than a remote wilderness. The Northern Pacific's Park Branch had reached Cinnabar, Montana, near the north entrance, by the 1880s, and stagecoaches carried passengers the rest of the way to Mammoth Hot Springs. Congress had set the land aside as the first national park in 1872, and maps like this one helped turn that reservation into a major tourist draw. Note how prominently the rail lines are drawn, a clue to the company's role in bringing visitors there.

Created / published1895
Original scan3,024 × 4,000 px · prints to 10 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceNorthern Pacific Railroad Yellowstone 1895

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