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[Columns of volcanic breccia near Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming] – Historic Print

[Columns of volcanic breccia near Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming], [1871] — historic photograph
[Columns of volcanic breccia near Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming], [1871]. 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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Tower Creek plunges over a rim toward the Yellowstone River at Tower Falls, and this print turns to the tall, fractured columns of volcanic breccia standing near the falls. It dates to 1871, when the Hayden Survey, the federal Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, was mapping and photographing the region. William Henry Jackson was among the survey's photographers that year. Its images helped persuade Congress to set the area aside as Yellowstone National Park in 1872.

Created / published[1871]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreLandscape photographs 1870-1880.Photographic prints 1870-1880.
NotesNo. 237.
SubjectsGeological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)--1870-1880. Volcanic rock--Wyoming--1870-1880. Rock formations--Wyoming--1870-1880. Yellowstone National Park--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan769 × 1,024 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136909

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