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Wawona Tunnel Construction Details – Historic Reproduction

Wawona Tunnel Construction Details — historic image
Wawona Tunnel Construction Details. Historic image from the Yosemite collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Wawona Tunnel Construction Details, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Wawona Tunnel Construction Details

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The Wawona Tunnel is one of the few places in Yosemite where a road was cut straight through solid granite, and this view records the work of building it. The tunnel carries the Wawona Road past the rock face on its way toward the valley floor, and its eastern exit is where travelers first get the wide view of Yosemite Valley that has made the spot famous. Construction in the early 1930s had to contend with steep terrain and hard rock, all done with hand tools, drills and blasting. Images like this one show how much effort went into a route that now feels effortless.

Original scan14,436 × 9,632 px · prints to 48 × 32 in at 300 dpi
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