[Photo Album]: Yellowstone and Rocky Mountain National Park

Title: [Photo Album]: Yellowstone and Rocky Mountain National Park
Publication: Yellowstone, Wyoming and Colorado: 1920s

Description: Hardcover. Oblong quarto. Measuring 11" x 8". String-tied black leather over paper boards with "Photographs" stamped in gilt on the front board. Contains 236 sepia toned or black and white gelatin silver photographs measuring between 1.5" x 3" and 3" x 5" affixed to stiff black paper, with captions.

A photo album kept by a woman on her trip with friends to Wyoming in the 1920s, with an emphasis on Yellowstone National Park and its surrounding attractions. The company, mostly comprised of women, went through the park photographing the numerous geysers including Old Faithful, Castle Geyser, and Grotto Geyser as well as the hot springs throughout the reserve. They hiked "Uncle Tom's Trail" and took photos of the canyon and the falls. One photo captioned, "a popular sport in the park" shows a tourist feeding a bear, while another shows "ones of the guides" dressed in leopard print chaps and a cowboy hat. After Yellowstone the group took a train to Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. These photos include the Continental Divide, Seven Falls, and silver mines. There are photos of automobiles and "automobile highways" throughout the West. One group of photos is from a hike up Long's Peak with images of the boulder fields. Two photos show a family of Native Americans in full traditional dress captioned, "Indians in the Garden of the Gods." Towards the end of the album two sections are captioned "scenes of the flood Pueblo, Colorado" and "scenes from the train." The album ends with some commercial images of Niagara Falls.

An extensive collection of images of two American national parks.

Seller ID: 400248

Subject: Ephemera, Photography

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