Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0069Description
Colorized stereograph. Image is of a large, man made stone archway over a gravel road, there is a sign embeded in the stone that reads "FOR THE BENEFIT AND ENJOYMENT OF THE PEOPLE", there is a hill in the distance. Below the image "13651 - Gateway, Yellowstone National Park, U.S.A." is printed. To the left of the image "Keystone View Compnay Manufacturers Publisheres COPYRIGHTED MADE IN U.S.A." is printed. To the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y. P---Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney ---" is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
13651 - Gateway to the Park
Visitors to the Yellowstone National Park on leaving the railway station at Gardiner, immediately pass through the monumental stone archway, shown in this view, and thereby enter upon a governmental reservation that was set aside by Congressioal enactment in 1872, "For the benefit and enjoyment of the people." It is equally free to Americans and to foreigners, to rich and to poor. This National Park is so large, so beautiful, so surprising in its exhibitions and so carefully guarded as to casue many who have visited it to think often of the divine injucntion, "Take thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground."
The monumental entrance archway was designed, and its construction was directed, by Captain Hiram Martin Chittenden, of the U.S. Engineer Corps, a most competent and trustworthy officier, who has had charge of a large part of the engineering work in the park.
Whoever passes through this archway for a tour of the park as before him surprises and pleasures that he had never adequately imagined, however much he may have previously read or heard of the region.
he is in the very heart of the majestic Rocky mountains, a region that might very appropriately be called the Crown of the Continent.
Copyright 1909, by Keystone View Company.Collection
Photograph Collection