Promotional Imagery of Glacier National Park
Wyckoff W and Dilsaver LM. 1997. Promotional Imagery of Glacier National Park. The Geographical Review. 87(1):1-26
The Great Northern Railway vigorously encouraged visitation to Glacier National Park between 1911 and 1930. We reconstruct the railway's promotional imagery of Glacier through an assessment of 796 photographs used by the company to publicize park landscapes and activities. Seven themes in the photographsNative Americans, scenery, recreation, wildlife, the Wild West, park management, and personalitiesreveal a useful portrait of how Glacier National Park was marketed with images of the American West mass distributed for decades by one of the nation's most influential corporations.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Wyckoff, William; Dilsaver, Lary
- Units
- CRCO , GLAC
- Keywords
- American West, Great Northern Railway, Place images, Tourism