Dublin Core
Title
Yellowstone National Park, 1904
Description
Southward-looking panorama straddles the genres of landscape painting, bird's eye view, and travel promotion. Although created by noted painter its appeal is easy to see for the Northern Pacific Railroad and its excursionary Yellowstone Park Line. <br />
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The work shows natural features (Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone Lake, geysers), several hotels, tourist features (wigwams, horse-drawn wagons), and of course the railroad infrastructure bringing visitors to the national park. Fort Yellowstone, located near the Mammoth Hot Springs, had been a necessary presence in the park's earlier days due to illegal poaching, mining, and tree-cutting.<br />
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This bird's eye view appears in OpenValley as a contrast to the more minimalist style used by Lucien R. Burleigh for a map of Caledonia, the subject of this story map.
Creator
Wellge, H. (Henry)
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Date
1904
Contributor
Cooper, Ken
Source
Library of Congress Geography and Map Division
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4262y.ct003224
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4262y.ct003224
Format
jpeg, 756 KB
Type
Bird's eye view
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Bird's eye view
Physical Dimensions
67 x 111 cm