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Tower Falls public auto camp party - probably in or near Yellowstone Park – Vintage Wall Art

Tower Falls public auto camp party - probably in or near Yellowstone Park — historic photograph
Tower Falls public auto camp party - probably in or near Yellowstone Park. Historic photograph from the Automobiles 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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A window into the past: Tower Falls public auto camp party - probably in or near Yellowstone Park, 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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Tower Falls public auto camp party - probably in or near Yellowstone Park

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Tower Falls, a spot in the northeast corner of Yellowstone, is the setting here, and the record places the scene there with some uncertainty. The photograph is dated to around December 14, 1923, which makes it an unusual winter-season view of a gathering at a public auto camp. By the early 1920s, motorists had been driving into Yellowstone for less than a decade, since the park opened to automobiles in 1915, and camps like this one gave travelers a place to pitch tents and meet other visitors. Pictures of these informal camp gatherings show how quickly the car changed the way Americans spent their vacations.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1923 Dec. 14.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,223 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-133728

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