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Pack horses picking a way down"; trooper "working up the divide"" – Historic Reproduction

Pack horses picking a way down"; trooper "working up the divide"" — historic print
Pack horses picking a way down"; trooper "working up the divide"". Historic print from the Horses 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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Pack horses picking a way down"; trooper "working up the divide"" comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Pack horses picking their way down a steep slope, with a trooper working up the divide behind them, make this 1895 halftone a view of hard, ordinary work in the backcountry. The caption card links the scene to Wyoming, a setting that fits the years when the U.S. Army patrolled Yellowstone National Park, a duty it held from 1886 until the National Park Service took over in 1916. Soldiers on these mountain routes moved supplies, checked on visitors, and guarded against poaching and vandalism. As a halftone, the picture also reflects how newly practical photomechanical reproduction let readers see western scenes like this in magazines and books.

Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
Notes1895
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: National parks...--Wyoming; West--Views; PI--WORKS; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,107 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127300

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