6,000 Miles Through Wonderland, title page by Olin D. Wheeler – Vintage Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of 6,000 Miles Through Wonderland, title page by Olin D. Wheeler. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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6,000 Miles Through Wonderland, title page by Olin D. Wheeler
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This title page introduces a guidebook that presented Yellowstone, the region the public called "Wonderland," as a destination reached by rail. Olin D. Wheeler, a writer and publicist for the Northern Pacific Railway, produced such booklets to draw visitors to the park's geysers, canyons, and waterfalls. Yellowstone had been set aside as the nation's first national park in 1872, and the railroad's arrival at Livingston, Montana, made the trip far easier for travelers from the East and Midwest. The title page itself is worth a close look, since it shows how railroad promoters framed the park as a grand journey to be taken in comfort.
| Original scan | 1,890 × 2,690 px · prints to 6 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | RRS0006c |
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