Yellowstone National Park: Steamer ZILLAH on Yellowstone Lake – Antique 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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This historic photograph of Yellowstone National Park: Steamer ZILLAH on Yellowstone Lake brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Yellowstone National Park: Steamer ZILLAH on Yellowstone Lake
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Steamer *Zillah* rides the open water of Yellowstone Lake, the largest high-elevation lake in North America, in this view taken around 1904. Steamboats like hers carried tourists across the lake when the park's roads were rough and travel was slow, linking hotels and camps on the shore. The Detroit Publishing Company, which issued many views of national parks and railroad destinations at the time, sold such scenes to visitors and armchair travelers who could not yet see the park for themselves. The caption card lists the subject as steamboats, coaches, and tourists, which places the boat within the early park tourism of that era.
| Created / published | c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photograph by the Detroit Publishing Co. No. 18000. Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Steamboats; Coaches; Tourists; Natl. Parks. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,995 × 1,500 px · prints to 7 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-142504 |
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