Post Card 82 • Norris Geyser Basin

Norris Geyser Basin.
Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Park, is most remarkable. Some of its waters deposit brightly colored arsenic mineral - orpiment and realgar, others yellow sulphur and black sulphur globules. Its steam vents are the hottest in the entire region.

Post Card 81 • Mt. Washburn

Mt. Washburn, Elevation 10,317ft.
Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

The highway in Yellowstone Park reaches its highest elevation at the top of this mountain. The stone building on its summit was erected by the National Park Service as a forest fire lookout station.

Post Card 80 • Old Faithful Inn and Geyser

Old Faithful Inn and Geyser
Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

Old Faithful Inn, in Upper Geyser Basin, was so named because of its proximity to Old Faithful Geyser. From the veranda of this huge log structure, there may be seen at close range the hourly erutions of Old Faithful Geyser, as well as displays of many other nearby geysers.

Post Card 79 • Chittenden Bridge and Mt. Washburn

Chittenden Bridge and Mt. Washburn
Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

The Milan arch bridge which spans the Yellowstone River above the upper fall of the Yellowstone was named for Brig. Gen. Hiram M. Chittenden. Its designer who also built the highway leading to the summit of Mt. Washburn which mountain is seen in the distance.

Post Card 78 • Roaring Mountain

Roaring Mountain, near Norris
Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

Four and one-half miles north of Norris Junction on the highway to Mammoth stands Roaring Moutain, a barren furrowed, ashen-hued ridge rising to a height of 400 feet above the highway. It no longer roars, but is interesting on account of its many steamvents and sulphur bordered hot rivulets trickling down its face.

Post Card 77 • Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon from Artist Point
Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

Grand Canyon from Artist Point, Yellowstone National Park - one of the favorite views of the Chasm and the Great Falls. 308 feet in height. "from which point Thomas Moran drew his inspiration for the celebrated painting which now adorns the Capitol at Washington" (Chittenden).

Post Card 76 • Grizzly Bears

Grizzly Bears, Otter Creek Feeding Grounds, Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

The most impressive wild grizzly bear exhibit in the whole world probably, is at the Government feeding grounds at Otter Creek near the Grand Canyon. A large stadium and parking area are provided for the safety of the spectators while the bears are fed.

Post Card 75 • Grotto Geyser

Grotto Geyser, Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

The Grotto Geyser plays 30 ft. high at intervals of 2 to 5 hours. Eruptions last from a quarter of an hour to eight hours.

Post Card 74 • Crater of Mud Volcano

Crater of Mud Volcano, Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

Crater of Mud Volcano, Yellowstone Park, a paint pot about thirty feet in size emitting frequent bursts of steam; but since 1898 has had no violent eruption. In 1870 N.P. Langford witnessed an eruption of the Mud Volcano which attained a height of several hundred feet.

Post Card 73 • Morning Glory Pool

Morning Glory Pool, Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

Morning Glory Pool, Yellowstone Park, filled with pure water, over 200 degrees in temperature never erupts nor even boils - always remaining quiescent like the flower for which it was named. It is 23 feet across and about 29 feet deep: the narrow fissure supplying this hot spring penetrates the Earth to unknown depth.

Post Card 72 • Obsidian Cliff

Obsidian Cliff, Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

Obsidian Cliff, Yellowstone Park, is on the Mammoth-Norris Road 12.3 miles from Mammoth Hot Springs. This volcanic glass brought Indians to the region in the early days for arrowhead material as the pipestone country of Minnesota attracted Indians to its quaries.

Post Card 71 • Upper Falls of the Yellowstone Park

Upper Falls of the Yellowstone Park
Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

Upper Falls of the Yellowstone Park, 109 ft., Yellowstone Park, is just below the Chittenden Bridge across the Yellowstone River, and about half a mile up stream from the Great Fall in the Grand Canyon.

Post Card 70 • Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces

Mammoth Hot Springs Terraces
Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

The calcium carbonate of which these terraces are built deposits so rapidly from the lime laden hot water that the courses of the flowing water are constantly changing. Where the water ceases to flow, the plant life which give the terraces their beautiful coloring disappears leaving the deposit white and bare.

Post Card 69 • Bunsen Peak

Bunsen Peak, Golden Gate Highway
Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

The new, wide highway from Mammoth to Golden Gate passes Bunsen Peak which was named in honor of Robert Wihelm Bunsen, famous German physicist who after studying the geysers in Iceland advanced an important theory of geyser action.

Post Card 68 • Excelsior Geyser Crater

Excelsior Geyser Crater, Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

At the left of Excelsior Geyser Crater is Grand Prismatic Spring. the two knolls in the distance are the Twin Buttes. Excelsior Geyser ceased to play in 1890.

Post Card 67 • Fountain Paint Pot

Fountain Paint Pot, Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

The Fountain Paint Pot is a boiling cauldron of tinted clay about 40 by 60 feet in size situated near the highway not far from the Fountain Geyser. Smaller paint pots are not uncommon in the Park, but except for the large one at the West Thumb the others are of minor importance.

Post Card 66 • Cleopatra Terrace and Mound Terrace

Cleopatra Terrace and Mound Terrace
Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

In this picture are shown Cleopatra Terrace in the foreground and Mound Terrace, the north side of Jupiter, in the distance. Everts Mountain named by the Washburn party in 1870 is shown at the left.

Post Card 65 • Black Bears

Black Bears, Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

The American Black Bear, native in this park, occur in two color phases, black and brown. Tourists interest the bears fully as much as bears interest tourists, as this picture indicates.

Post Card 64 • Dragons Mouth Spring

Dragons Mouth Spring, Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

The beautiful Dragons Mouth Spring of hot, clear water contrasts with its near neighbor the Mud Volcano which belches boiling mud. These are two contrasting types of thermal springs of which Yellowstone has many.

Post Card 63 • Canyon Hotel Lounge

Canyon Hotel Lounge, Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

Canyon Hotel Lounge, one of the show places of the park, is the front wing of the hotel situated on the north side of the Grand Canyon.

Post Card 62 • Grand Canyon from Grand View

Grand Canyon from Grand View
Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

Grand View of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone presents a comprehensive panorama from a situation midway between the Lower Falls and Inspiration Point. It is one of the most commonly visited and striking view points of the Canyon.

Post Card 61 • Golden Gate Canyon

Golden Gate Canyon, Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

Golden Gate Canyon, the north approach to Kingman Pass, lies between a bold escarpment of rhyolite and Bunsen Peak. The golden color of lichens adhering to the rock accounts for the name. rustic Falls in Glen Creek add beauty to this gorge.

Post Card 60 • Old Faithful Geyser

Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

Old Faithful Geyser erupts every 66.3 minutes on the average, to heights of from 116 to 171 feet, for a period of four minutes. This is the most celebrated picture of this famous geyser, which was named in 1870 by General Henry D. Washburn.

Post Card 59 • Old Faithful Geyser

Old Faithful Geyser, height 150 feet

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CAPTION:

Old Faithful Geyser. Yellowstone Park, as depicted in this picture is one of the typical mid-day eruptions when there is sufficient breeze to waft away from the 150 ft. water column its envelope of steam. These displays occur summer and winter at intervals varying from 65 to 80 minutes.

Post Card 58 • Lower Falls from Moran Point

Lower Falls from Moran Point. 308 ft.
Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone view from Moran Point was the favorite of Thomas Moran, celebrated American artist, for whom this point on the canyon rim was named. Lookout Point above Red Rock is shown at the right.

Post Card 57 • Liberty Cap

Liberty Cap, mammoth hot springs
Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

Liberty Cap is an outstanding travertine deposit built up by a now dormant hot spring to a height of forty feet. It is at Mammoth Hot Springs.

Post Card 56 • Hell Roaring Peak

Hell Roaring Peak from tower highway
Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

Situated north and west of Hell Roaring Creek, a tributary of the Yellowstone River, is Hell Roaring Peak which has an elevation above sea-level of 8,200 feet. This view is taken from the Tower-Mammoth Highway.

Post Card 55 • Old Faithful Geyser and Bus

Old Faithful Geyser and Bus
Yellowstone national park

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CAPTION:

Old Faithful geyser at Upper Geyser Basin erupts about every 66 1/2 minutes. The jets of water are thrown to an average height of 150 feet.

Post Card 54 • Grand Canyon and Great Falls

Grand Canyon and Great Falls of Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park

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CAPTION:
West Yellowstone is the Popular Gateway to Yellowstone National Park.
Reached via Union Pacific System.

Union Pacific to West Yellowstone is the popular and direct Yellowstone National Park Route. Through Pullmans during the season.

Post Card 53 • Mount Moran, Grand Teton NP

Stately Mount Moran
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

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CAPTION:
Viewed across Jackson Lake.
Reached via Union Pacific System from Victor, Idaho

Union Pacific is the direct route to Grand Teton National Park and to Jackson Hole, the famous Dude Ranch Country adjacent to it.