Mammoth Hot Springs Series. General View of Upper Basins – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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A window into the past: Mammoth Hot Springs Series. General View of Upper Basins, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mammoth Hot Springs Series. General View of Upper Basins
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Mammoth Hot Springs, in the northwest corner of what is now Yellowstone National Park, is where hot water builds a landscape instead of only steaming in place. Its stepped travertine terraces form as mineral-rich water cools and leaves calcium carbonate behind. This card, number 94 in a series of 122 Yellowstone views, looks across the upper basins to show how those formations climb the slope. Published in 1876, four years after Congress created the park in 1872, it was designed to be seen through a stereoscope, which gave the terraces a sense of depth.
| Created / published | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | Title from item. No. 94. Part of series: Yellowstone National Park illustrated by 122 views. 18. · Marshall William I. (William Isaac) 1840-1906 publisher. |
| Subjects | Natural phenomena--Wyoming--Mammoth Hot Springs--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,849 × 2,433 px · prints to 16 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-269238 |
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