Gibbon Falls, Yellow-Stone National Park is a chromolithograph from c.1880 showing two fisherman at the base of Gibbon Falls. This chromolithograph is a dramatic view of the powerful Gibbon waterfall that cascades 84 feet into a small, clear pool. The setting is quintessential Yellowstone, with scrubby pine trees and rocky cliffs. The inscription on the bottom left corner below the image says Scenery From Nature on the Northern Pacific R.R. Established by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872 Yellowstone was the first national park in the U.S. and is widely held to be the first national park in the world. Native Americans have lived in the Yellowstone region for at least 11,000 years. The Northern Pacific Railroad...
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1880s Naturalistic Felix Benoist Prints and Multiples