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Auction 180, Lot 308

"Yellowstone National Park and Forest Reserve from Maps by the U.S. Geological Survey", U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Subject: Yellowstone, Wyoming

Period: 1890 (circa)

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Color: Printed Color

Size:
20 x 17.9 inches
50.8 x 45.5 cm
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This finely detailed topographical map shows all of Yellowstone Park plus the region to the east up to Bighorn County, in today's Park County. It has good topographical detail with contour intervals at 100 feet at a scale of 1 inch = 4 miles. The Upper, Shoshone, Gibbon, and Heart Lake Geyser Basins, Mud Geysers, Mammoth Hot Springs are named. Old Faithful Hotel is noted.

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Condition: A+

A fine example, issued folding.

Estimate: $110 - $140

Sold for: $350

Closed on 11/18/2020

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