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[Large black bear at garbage pails on wagon, Yellowstone National Park]: Old Ephriam helping himself – Antique Wall Art

[Large black bear at garbage pails on wagon, Yellowstone National Park]: Old Ephriam helping himself, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A. : Ingersoll View Company, c1905. — historic photograph
[Large black bear at garbage pails on wagon, Yellowstone National Park]: Old Ephriam helping himself, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.A. : Ingersoll View Company, c1905.. 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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Old Ephriam, the bear named in this card's title, is caught helping himself to garbage pails set on a wagon in Yellowstone National Park. Around the turn of the twentieth century, park visitors often left food scraps where bears could reach them, and animals learned quickly that camps and dumps meant easy meals. St. Paul's Ingersoll View Company issued this stereograph around 1905, one of many scenes sold as souvenirs to be viewed through a stereoscope at home. The close vantage point shows how casually such bear encounters were presented to the public at the time.

Created / publishedSt. Paul, Minn., U.S.A. : Ingersoll View Company, c1905.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910.
NotesCopyright by T.W. Ingersoll.
SubjectsBears--Yellowstone National Park--1900-1910. Carts & wagons--Yellowstone National Park--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 735 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-162630

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