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The Northern Pacific Railroad--the Yellowstone Park route to Puget Sound and Alaska – Antique Print

The Northern Pacific Railroad--the Yellowstone Park route to Puget Sound and Alaska, [between 1890 and 1910] — antique lithograph
The Northern Pacific Railroad--the Yellowstone Park route to Puget Sound and Alaska, [between 1890 and 1910]. Antique lithograph 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 rare antique lithograph captures The Northern Pacific Railroad--the Yellowstone Park route to Puget Sound and Alaska in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The Northern Pacific Railroad--the Yellowstone Park route to Puget Sound and Alaska

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This color lithograph promotes a rail itinerary that combined a stop in Yellowstone with a continuation to Puget Sound and Alaska, so it sells a journey as much as a place. The Northern Pacific ran a branch to the park's northern edge, where passengers transferred to horse-drawn coaches for the tour through the park. Railroads like this one issued pamphlets and posters in this period to fill seats and steamship berths, and the coaches shown here stand for the park's early tourism, when Yellowstone, established in 1872, was reached mainly by rail and stagecoach.

Created / published[between 1890 and 1910]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenrePamphlets 1890-1910.Lithographs Color 1890-1910.
NotesIn collection: Illustrated time tables and travel pamphlets.
SubjectsNorthern Pacific Railroad Company--Public relations--1890-1910. Carriages & coaches--Yellowstone National Park--1890-1910. Travel--Yellowstone National Park--1890-1910. Tourism--Yellowstone National Park--1890-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,336 × 2,981 px · prints to 4 × 10 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218094

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