Yosemite Valley" California (from Mariposa trail) / painted by Andrew Melrose." – Vintage Print
(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 antique lithograph captures Yosemite Valley" California (from Mariposa trail) / painted by Andrew Melrose." in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Yosemite Valley" California (from Mariposa trail) / painted by Andrew Melrose."
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Riders on horseback fill the foreground of this view, which the record places on the Mariposa trail, one of the routes travelers used to reach Yosemite Valley before railroads served the region. Andrew Melrose painted the scene, and the London firm Raphael Tuck & Sons issued it as a color lithograph around 1887, when visitors were increasingly drawn to the valley's granite walls and waterfalls. Congress had granted the valley to California for public use in 1864, and it became a national park in 1890, so the print captures the place as tourism was taking shape. Its London publisher also shows how Yosemite's scenery was marketed to audiences far from the American West.
| Created / published | London : Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, c1887. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Landscape prints 1880-1890.Lithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 2149 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 762. |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--California--Yosemite Valley--1880-1890. Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,451 × 1,177 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216033 |
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