Successful Hunters dressing Elk, No. 56 from the series "Yellowstone National Park Views"
Medium
Albumen print, stereo
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.)
Classification
stereograph (albumen)
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
143983
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
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, sp...
About the Artist
William I. Marshall
William I. Marshall, born William Isaac Marshall on June 25, 1840, in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, pursued a multifaceted career as a miner, publisher, educator, lecturer, and historian rather than receiving formal artistic training. In 1866 he arrived in Montana Territory, residing in Virginia City until 1875 and working mining claims, where he encountered the Hayden survey party in 1871. During thi...