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[Old Faithful Inn, with automobiles parked in front, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming] – Vintage Print

[Old Faithful Inn, with automobiles parked in front, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming], [between 1930 and 1940] — historic photograph
[Old Faithful Inn, with automobiles parked in front, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming], [between 1930 and 1940]. Historic photograph from the Automobiles 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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Old Faithful Inn, the log-and-timber hotel built in 1903-1904 near the Old Faithful geyser, is the focus here, with a line of parked automobiles out front that marks the shift in who was visiting the park by the 1930s. Cars had become the main way most travelers reached Yellowstone, and the hotel, designed by Robert Reamer and famous for its towering lobby, served as a gathering point for them. The picture is part of the Portrait of America series, a set of 1930s-era views of the United States assembled as a record of the country's landscapes and places.

Created / published[between 1930 and 1940]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1930-1940.
NotesPortrait of America, no. 61. Forms part of: Portrait of America Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsHotels--Yellowstone National Park--1930-1940.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,281 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-195705

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