Yellowstone National Park

Caption

Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

Catalog notes

This compact color map belongs to a period when Yellowstone was becoming a destination that travelers could plan around. It offers a different kind of park history from expedition maps: a designed object intended to make a large, unfamiliar landscape approachable. Alongside more technical surveys in the repository, it can show how the same place is mapped differently when the audience changes from scientists and administrators to visitors.

Original catalog record, source and attribution