Yellowstone Roads - A Cultural Landscape – Vintage Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Yellowstone Roads - A Cultural Landscape, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Yellowstone Roads - A Cultural Landscape
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Yellowstone's road system is the subject here, shown as a cultural landscape rather than a single scenic view, so the picture is about how people moved through the park as much as the park itself. The national park was established in 1872, and its early roads were built largely for stagecraft and tourism, with automobiles only arriving in significant numbers in the 1910s. Roads like these shaped where visitors could go, which geysers and overlooks they saw, and how the park was managed over the following century. Worth noticing is how the roadway bends with the terrain, reflecting engineering decisions made to fit a landscape of rough ground, rivers, and volcanic features.
| Original scan | 6,800 × 4,622 px · prints to 23 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Yellowstone Roads - A Cultural Landscape |
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