Great Falls of the Yellowstone, 360 feet – Historic Print
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(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Great Falls of the Yellowstone, 360 feet. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Great Falls of the Yellowstone, 360 feet
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The title gives this waterfall a height of 360 feet, a figure the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River does not reach, since it drops about 308 feet into the canyon below. The print is an albumen photograph from an 1883 tour of Yellowstone and northwestern Wyoming, and it survives in an album that also holds party portraits and copies of Associated Press dispatches sent while the travelers were on the road. Albumen prints were the standard way to reproduce scenic views in the 1880s, and this one shows how early visitors framed the falls for viewers who would never make the trip.
| Created / published | [1883] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Landscape photographs 1870-1880.Albumen prints 1880-1890.. |
| Notes | Title from item. In album: Journey through the Yellowstone National Park and Northwestern Wyoming, 1883 : photographs of party and scenery along the route traveled and copies of the Associated Press dispatches sent whilst en route, p. 40, no. 1076. |
| Subjects | Waterfalls--Yellowstone National Park--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,519 × 5,694 px · prints to 15 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-212677 |
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