Yellowstone National Park:

A Collection of Historic Photographs Featuring Park Geology

Click here to start a tour of well-known landmarks, or click on the map below. Then click on any of the images to continue to the next page in the linked page series.

Click here to see tours of other national parks.

The tour begins at Old Faithful and proceeds in a clockwise route around the park.

The images used in this website are scanned from original stereographs that were purchased as souveniers by Emma Sanor (from Minerva, Ohio) while visiting Yellowstone in 1916. The sterographs are therefore older than that date (and have hense expired their copyright). Stereo photography became extremely popular starting in the early 1880's. The oldest date for any of these original images was about 1884. Individual pages can be clicked on below.

To see the same images as 3-D anaglyphic images, click here. The original seterography images were scanned and manipulated into anaglyphs (3-D images) with image processing software (Adobe PhotoShop). You will need red-and-cyan stereo viewing glasses to get the 3-D visual effects.

This website is an image tour of Yellowstone National Park. They are large (~600 KB each) and may be slow to load on low-speed web connections.

Angel Terrace
Cleopatra Terrace
Down the Grand Canyon
Eagles Nest Rock
Economic Geyser
Fishing Spring
Giant Geyser
Giant Geyser Cone
Gibbon Falls
Golden Gate Canyon
Golden Gate Entrance

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
Grand Geyser Crater
Grand View
Great Falls
Grotto Spring
Hayden Valley
Inspiration Point
Keppler Falls
Liberty Cap
Mammoth Hot Springs
Mammoth Paint Pots

Minerva Terrace
Obsidian Cliff
Old Faithful Geyser
Old Faithful Inn
Pulpit Terrace
Punch Bowl Spring
Red Rock Overlook
Riverside Geyser
Twin Cub Bears
Upper Falls
Rapids above Upper Falls
Tetons

For more information about Yellowstone National Park's geology visit the U.S. Geological Survey's Yellowstone Volcano Observatory website at http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/.

Also visit the official National Park Service's website for Yellowstone National Park at http://www.nps.gov/yell/.

Click here to see more 3-D geology tours of national parks.

This website was prepared by Phil Stoffer and Eleyne Phillips
USGS Western Earth Surface Processes Team, Menlo Park, California.

U.S. Department of the Interior - U.S. Geological Survey - Geology Discipline
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