Bears eating at dump in Yellowstone National Park

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DescriptionThe photograph shows an audience of men and women, many wearing hats, including a cloche and National Park ranger flat hat. In the distance are at least six bears in front of a number of trees. The image likely depicts the nightly feeding of the bears of Yellowstone National Park at a dump near one of the hotels, possibly the Lake Hotel.TypeImageCreatorKramer, Richard S. (Richard Scott), 1916-2002GenrephotographsDate1935SubjectBearsWildlife watchingWildlife managementContributing InstitutionYellowstone National Park Heritage and Research CenterGeographic CoverageYellowstone National ParkDigital CollectionYellowstone National Park PhotographsDigital Formatimage/tiffPhysical CollectionCivilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in Yellowstone Documentation Project (MSC 180)Digitization SpecificationScanned on a CanoScan LiDE 2010 at 600 DPI, 24-bit color. Tiff master images cropped and straightened in Photoshop Elements. JPEG display images generated by CONTENTdm.

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