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The Castle Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park – Vintage Print

The Castle Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, c1874. — antique lithograph
The Castle Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, c1874.. 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The Castle Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The Castle Geyser, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park

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Castle Geyser takes its name from the weathered, turret-like cone of silica deposits it has built up over time, and it stands in the Upper Geyser Basin, the same basin that holds Old Faithful. This chromolithograph, dated to about 1874 and issued in the Prang's American Chromos series, renders the rugged formation in layers of color. Boston publisher Louis Prang was known for making color printing affordable to a broad American audience. Yellowstone had become the nation's first national park only two years earlier, in 1872, and images like this one helped introduce its wonders to people who would never see them firsthand.

Created / publishedc1874.
Medium1 print : chromolithograph.
NotesPrang's American Chromos.
SubjectsGeysers--Wyoming--1870-1880. Yellowstone National Park--1870-1880. Upper Geyser Basin (Wyo.)--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,282 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181997

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