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Yellowstone River above the falls – Historic Print

Yellowstone River above the falls, c1892. — historic photograph
Yellowstone River above the falls, c1892.. Historic photograph from the Yellowstone 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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This view looks upstream along the Yellowstone River above its falls, in the northwest corner of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. William Henry Jackson, who had photographed the park with the Hayden Survey in 1871, made many views of its rivers and canyons, and this one is listed in the 1898 catalog of his work. The print is an albumen photograph mounted on board, made about 1892 and later issued through the Detroit Publishing Company. Jackson's pictures helped persuade the public and Congress that Yellowstone was worth protecting, which is why scenes like this one came to stand for the park's early reputation.

Created / publishedc1892.
Medium1 photographic print mounted on mat board : albumen ; image 43.3 x 53.5 cm.
GenreColo." Listed in Catalogue of the W.H. Jackson Views (1898). Copyright deposit no. 48368. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 1102. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
NotesW.H. Jackson Phot. Co.
SubjectsNational parks & reserves. Rivers.United States--Wyoming--Yellowstone National Park.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan3,174 × 2,754 px · prints to 11 × 9 in at 300 dpi
Reference18956u Yellowstone River, above the falls

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