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An Act to set apart a certain tract of land as a public park – Vintage Wall Art

An Act to set apart a certain tract of land as a public park — historic image
An Act to set apart a certain tract of land as a public park. Historic image from the Yellowstone collection.

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This rare historic image captures An Act to set apart a certain tract of land as a public park in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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The text of the 1872 act that set aside land near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River as a public park is the document itself, not a view of the landscape. President Ulysses S. Grant signed it on March 1, 1872, creating the first national park in the world. Its passage owed a great deal to the 1871 Hayden Geological Survey, whose photographs by William Henry Jackson and paintings by Thomas Moran helped convince Congress that the region's geysers and canyons deserved protection. The board's pairing of the act with those two artists shows how legal language and visual evidence worked together.

Original scan800 × 1,143 px
ReferenceACT APPROVED March 1st 1872 1

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