Hope Valley, Alpine County – Antique Print
![Hope Valley, Alpine County, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/07/0717be4aef8c-L.webp)
(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.)
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This rare historic photograph captures Hope Valley, Alpine County in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Hope Valley, Alpine County
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Hope Valley, a meadow in Alpine County, California, is the subject of this half of a stereograph, and the Library holds only one photograph from the original pair. Its caption card gives the series title *Gems of California Scenery* and number 924, though the record notes that this information is unverified. Alpine County had been organized only a few years earlier, in 1864, and it remained a thinly settled mountain county on the eastern Sierra Nevada slope. Albumen prints like this one were widely sold in the 1860s for viewing through a stereoscope, which gave the scene its illusion of depth.
| Created / published | [published 1866] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 924. LOT subdivision subject: Alpine County. This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,449 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115620 |
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