Mammoth Hot Springs Series. General View of Upper Basins – Antique Photo 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. General View of Upper Basins, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Mammoth Hot Springs Series. General View of Upper Basins
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The upper basins at Mammoth Hot Springs, where white travertine terraces climb in tiers above the active pools, are the subject of this stereograph, No. 96 in a series of 122 Yellowstone views. Published in 1876, four years after Congress created Yellowstone as the first national park, it shows how quickly photographers were working to make the remote region known to the public. Viewed through a stereoscope, the paired images gave the terraces a depth and scale that a flat print could not, offering a useful record of how the formations looked in the 1870s.
| Created / published | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | No. 96. Title from item. Part of series: Yellowstone National Park illustrated by 122 views. · 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 | 5,598 × 2,851 px · prints to 19 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 13211u Mammoth Hot Springs Series. General View of Upper Basins 1876 |
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