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[Vernal Fall, Yosemite National Park, Calif.] – Historic Print

[Vernal Fall, Yosemite National Park, Calif.], [ca. 1860] — historic photograph
[Vernal Fall, Yosemite National Park, Calif.], [ca. 1860]. Historic photograph from the Yosemite collection.

(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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[Vernal Fall, Yosemite National Park, Calif.]

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Vernal Fall, a cascade of about 317 feet on the Merced River, is the subject here, and the photographer chose a view that shows its full drop against the surrounding rock. This albumen print dates to around 1860, before Abraham Lincoln signed the 1864 grant that set aside Yosemite Valley for public use, when the valley was still little known outside California. Albumen prints, made by coating paper with egg white and silver salts, were the standard for landscape photography of the period and give such images their fine detail and warm tone. The print was later shown in the exhibition *Expanding Horizons* at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Created / published[ca. 1860]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen ; 8 5/8 x 10 11/16 in.
NotesExhibited: Expanding Horizons" at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
SubjectsWaterfalls--California--1860. Yosemite National Park (Calif.)--1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,280 × 1,016 px · prints to 4 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124044

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