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Photographer: Photochrom Postcard by the Detroit Photographic Company
Taken: Circa 1902
Caption: Hymen Terrace, Yellowstone National Park
Additional Description: Fort Yellowstone is visible in the background, with Liberty Cap on the right.

"Hymen Terrace is a small inactive terrace at the southwest edge of Hotel Terrace. An extinct hot-spring cone, about 14 m high and 6 m in diameter at the base, dominates the setting of Hymen Terrace. Indeed, this long-dead hot-spring orifice, named Liberty Cap by the 1871 Hayden expedition, reigns supreme over the entire Mammoth Hot Springs Landscape. Hymen Springs, inactive since about 1936 was evidently a major attraction on Hymen Terrace from the time of the earliest recorded observation in 1870 until the 1930's...." -- US Geological Survey,Geology and Thermal History of Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming , 1978

Image courtesy of the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Submitted: September 10, 2015.
Database Locator Identification Number: p328262
File Size: 6.684 Megabytes

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