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Minerva Terrace, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., U.S.A. – Vintage Wall Art

Minerva Terrace, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., U.S.A., Cincinnati, Ohio : The Whiting View Company, c1904. — historic photograph
Minerva Terrace, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., U.S.A., Cincinnati, Ohio : The Whiting View Company, c1904.. 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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Minerva Terrace, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., U.S.A. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Minerva Terrace, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., U.S.A.

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Minerva Terrace is one of the best-known formations at Mammoth Hot Springs in northern Yellowstone, where mineral-rich water rising through limestone cools and deposits calcium carbonate in pale, stepped ledges. This Whiting View Company stereograph, issued in Cincinnati around 1904, was made to be seen through a stereoscope, which merged its two slightly offset photographs into a single three-dimensional view of the terrace. Cards like this one brought images of distant landmarks such as Yellowstone into parlors across the country, letting viewers who would never visit the park see its strange, sculpted surfaces up close.

Created / publishedCincinnati, Ohio : The Whiting View Company, c1904.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesH47801 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by R.R. Whiting. No. 1302.
SubjectsRock formations--Yellowstone National Park--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,811 × 1,908 px · prints to 13 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-177848

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