Successful Hunters dressing Elk, No. 56 from the series "Yellowstone National Park Views"

William I. Marshall (American, active late 19th century)

1876

Medium
Albumen print, stereo
Classification
Photograph
Dimensions
Each image: 8.1 × 7.6 cm (3 1/4 × 3 in.); Card: 8.6 × 17.5 cm (3 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
Culture
United States
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago, Photography and Media
Credit line
Gift of Harold Allen
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

About this work

Text printed on reverse of stereocard:

This Park, the largest in the world, area 3578 sq. miles, elevation above the sea from 6000 to 14,000 ft., is on both sides (but mainly on E side) of the main range of the Rocky Mts., in N.W. corner of Wyoming Territory, U.S. of A. It was made a National Park by Act of Congress, approved March 1, 1872, and contains a far greater number and variety of natural wonders, lakes, cataracts, canons, mud volcanoes, solfataras, fumaroles, ornamental hot springs, spouting geysers, etc., than any other equal area on the globe.

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0