Yosemite Valley from Artist's Point – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Yosemite Valley from Artist's Point, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Yosemite Valley from Artist's Point
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From Artist's Point, a vantage above the valley that drew painters and photographers in the decades after Yosemite was set aside as a state park in 1864, this panoramic view stretches across the granite walls and meadows of the valley floor. The print is a cyanotype, a process that produces the distinctive blue-and-white tones of early blueprints, and it was copyrighted by the Detroit Photographic Company, a firm known for scenic views of the American West around 1900. Because the record relies on information from the original caption card, its details are not independently verified. The wide format shows how photographers of the period used panoramas to convey the scale of Yosemite's cliffs and waterfalls.
| Created / published | c1901. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : panroamic cyanotype. |
| Notes | Panoramic cyanotype copyrighted by Detroit Photographic Co. No. 010573. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Unprocessed in Panroama Collection. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 689 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150466 |
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