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The Paint Pots, Yellowstone National Park – Historic Reproduction

The Paint Pots, Yellowstone National Park — historic image
The Paint Pots, Yellowstone National Park. Historic image from the Yellowstone collection.

(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 image of The Paint Pots, Yellowstone National Park brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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The Paint Pots, Yellowstone National Park

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The Paint Pots sit in a small thermal basin in Yellowstone's Lower Geyser Basin, where acidic hot springs have turned clay and rock into a palette of pinks, ochres and grays. Bubbling mud pools here are a reminder of the park's volcanic foundation, which still heats groundwater just beneath the surface. Yellowstone was set aside in 1872 as the first national park in the United States, and early visitors came to see features like these as wonders of nature. Hayden Moran's view captures the soft, layered colors that made this corner of the park one of its most memorable stops.

Original scan7,054 × 5,509 px · prints to 24 × 18 in at 300 dpi
Reference18054u

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