Boxed Set of 30 Yellowstone National Park Stereoviews (with scarce textbook & map)

Underwood & Underwood, 1904. Hardcover. Complete set of 30 Yellowstone National Park stereoview photographs. Titled "Yellowstone National Park" the set includes thirty 3 1/2" x 7" curved double mount views of scenes in Yellowstone. Housed in the original publisher's 4" x 7 3/4" book-form case, with scarce accompanying 68-page text book & large folding color map. Each view is dated c.1904, sequentially numbered (1-30) and identified below the right hand image; the verso contains expansive information about each view. The images are generally very rich and in excellent condition. The book is in fine condition; the box is worn.

Yeloowstone National Park was established in 1872 by President Ulysses S. Grant, the first park to be established in the United States. Its unique natural resources attracted visitors from around the world and as a result of its growing popularity in 1894 members of the Boone and Crockett Club (including Theodore Roosevelt) were successful in carrying through the Park Protection Act, which saved the park.

The 30 images include: (1) Arriving By N. Pac. Ry. at Gardiner, Mont., for visit to Yellowstone Park - looking west to Gallatin Range; (2) Six horse tally-ho leaving mountain walled Gardiner for trip through Yellowstone Park; (3) From Yellowstone Park N. through its gateway over Gardiner to Gallatin Range (left) and Buffalo Plateau. (4) Fort Yellowstone, among the mountains, headquarters of U.S, Troops guarding Yellowstone Park; (5) A Mountain of "Petrified" Water - Pulpit Terrace and Mammoth Springs Hotel, Yellowstone Park; (6) How an overflowing spring begins to build a terrace of "geyserite" deposits Yellowstone Park; (7) Cleopatra Terrace and its mirror-like pools - Mammoth Hot Springs Yellowstone Park; (8) Wild buffalo, one of America's "first families," at home on a sunny slope, Yellowstone Park; (9) Golden Gate-entrance to picturesque ravine of "golden rocks" - Yellowstone Park; (10) "Black Growler" whose steam kills trees, and whose roaring startles tourists, Yellowstone Park; (11) Glittering spray from "Constant" Geyser and stream from "Black Growler," Yellowstone Park; (12) The "Devil's Inkwell" bubbling and boiling over hidden fires, in famous Yellowstone Park; (13) Grizzly Bear at home in the wooded wilderness of famous Yellowstone Park; (14) "Great Fountain" Geyser, throwing up clouds of steam and boiling water, Yellowstone Park; (15) The "Black Warrior" Geyser waving a banner of steam and spray, Yellowstone Park; (16) Grotesque shapes of geyserite among the pools of "Biscuit Basin," Yellowstone Park; (17) Fifteen-minute display of "Riverside" Geyser - boiling water 100 feet in air - Yellowstone Park; (18) The "Tea Kettle" boiling hot from Mother Earth's hidden fire - Yellowstone Park; 6261 Sunrise in Yellowstone Park, where the earth's great fires still burn - over Upper Geyser Basin; (20) Peering into the mysterious crater of "Old Faithful," between its eruptions, Yellowstone Park; (21) The most famous sight in Yellowstone Park - "Old Faithful" Geyser in action (height 180 ft.); (22) Mirrored beauty of majestic "Old Faithful," east to Continental Divide, Yellowstone Park; (23) Ominous bubbling and boiling in the "Devil's Punch Bowl," Yellowstone Park; (24) Keppler Cascade, one of the Gems of Yellowstone Park; (25) W. from Continental Divide over Shoshone Lake to the Grand Teton, Yellowstone Park; (26) Fisherman at lake cooking in a boiling spring the trout just caught, Yellowstone Park; (27) From Pt. Lookout, 1,200 ft. above river, up Canon to Lower Falls (308 ft.), Yellowstone Park; (28) From Pt. Lookout, north down the glorious canon to river 1,200 feet below. Yellowstone Park; (29) Ten miles of yawning chasm - down the canon from Inspiration Point, Yellowstone Park; (30) Incredible heights and depths of the canon N. E. from Artists' Point, Yellowstone Park.