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[The Yellowstone River below Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park, reached by the Northern Pacific Railway via Gardiner Gateway] – Historic Print

[The Yellowstone River below Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park, reached by the Northern Pacific Railway via Gardiner Gateway], [between 1909 and 1932] — historic photograph
[The Yellowstone River below Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park, reached by the Northern Pacific Railway via Gardiner Gateway], [between 1909 and 1932]. 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [The Yellowstone River below Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park, reached by the Northern Pacific Railway via Gardiner Gateway]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[The Yellowstone River below Tower Falls, Yellowstone National Park, reached by the Northern Pacific Railway via Gardiner Gateway]

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Tower Falls, where the Yellowstone River drops over a ledge framed by jagged volcanic rock pinnacles, was one of the park's most photographed spots. This view was made under a Northern Pacific Railway copyright, and the railroad promoted the park's northern approach through Gardiner Gateway, the route its passengers used to reach the interior. Commercial views like this one, sold through the railroad and its photographic contractors, helped shape how travelers pictured Yellowstone in the early twentieth century, as a destination reached by rail and by stagecoach and motorcar from the Montana entrance.

Created / published[between 1909 and 1932]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1940.
NotesCopyright by Gifford for Northern Pacific Ry. Co. No. 3756. National Photo Company Collection.
SubjectsYellowstone River--1900-1940. Yellowstone National Park--1900-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,630 × 2,994 px · prints to 12 × 10 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-177872

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