Pictorial bird's-eye map of Yellowstone National Park – Historic Map Reproduction
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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Pictorial bird's-eye map of Yellowstone National Park. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Pictorial bird's-eye map of Yellowstone National Park
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Rather than a flat survey, this map shows Yellowstone from an angled, elevated viewpoint, so lakes, mountains and geyser basins appear as a traveler might glimpse them from a height. Congress set the land aside in 1872 as the first national park, and maps like this grew popular in the following decades, when railroads and tourist companies wanted to show its scale and famous attractions. Pictorial views were meant to persuade as much as inform, presenting features such as Old Faithful and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone as one connected destination. The small labels and vignettes show which sights promoters considered worth featuring.
| Original scan | 5,549 × 4,086 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Yellowstone National Park |
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