Bear at Lake Hotel – Vintage Print
(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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Step back in time with Bear at Lake Hotel, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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At the Lake Hotel, on the northern shore of Yellowstone Lake, a bear is the subject here, which sets this view apart from the lodge and lake scenes that dominated the park's postcard trade. The hotel dated to the 1890s, and in the 1910s visitors often saw black bears and grizzlies near lodges and garbage dumps, where people fed them for entertainment. This print was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, a step that suggests it was sold commercially as a view of park life. It is worth noticing how casually the animal appears beside the buildings, a reminder of how little separation there was between tourists and wildlife in the early park.
| Created / published | c1913. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1910-1920. |
| Notes | J179244 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 3633. |
| Subjects | Bears--Yellowstone National Park--1910-1920. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,720 × 2,944 px · prints to 12 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179074 |
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