Sunday, January 12, 2014

Prang

Castle Geyser, Yellowstone

Hot Springs, Yellowstone

Tower Falls, Yellowstone

Tower Falls, Yellowstone

Yellowstone Lake

Summit, Sierra Nevada

Great Falls, Snake River, Idaho

Great Salt Lake, Utah

River valley, Utah
Prang's American Chromo published these images of the American West in the middle 1870s. The technique of color reproduction known as chromolithography fell out of use in the early 20th century. This group is preserved  in the Prints and Photographs collection at the Library of Congress. They were created in the spirit of an earlier, venerable, European fashion for the "Romantic Sublime" in landscape (as in poetry).