Mammoth Hot Springs Series. Dianas Baths – Vintage Print
(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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A window into the past: Mammoth Hot Springs Series. Dianas Baths, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Mammoth Hot Springs Series. Dianas Baths
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Diana's Baths, a set of pools among the travertine terraces at Mammoth Hot Springs, is the subject of this 1876 stereograph card. The terraces form as hot mineral water carries dissolved calcium carbonate to the surface, where it cools and leaves layers of pale stone that build up into stepped formations over time. The card is number 101 in a series of 122 Yellowstone views issued by publisher William I. Marshall, part of a wave of photography that helped publicize the region a few years after Congress made it the nation's first national park in 1872. Viewed through a stereoscope, the two nearly identical images merge into a single three-dimensional scene.
| Created / published | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | No. 101. Title from item. Part of series: Yellowstone National Park illustrated by 122 views. 24. · Marshall William I. (William Isaac) 1840-1906 publisher. |
| Subjects | Natural phenomena--Wyoming--Mammoth Hot Springs--1800-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,863 × 2,464 px · prints to 16 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-269232 |
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