The Sentinel Rock, 3270 feet high - Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County – Vintage Wall Art
![The Sentinel Rock, 3270 feet high - Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1f/1f4b8794eca1-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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A window into the past: The Sentinel Rock, 3270 feet high - Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Sentinel Rock, 3270 feet high - Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County
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Sentinel Rock, a granite face rising above the floor of Yosemite Valley in Mariposa County, is the subject here, and the caption card gives its height as 3,270 feet, a figure that has not been independently verified. This albumen print is one half of a stereographic pair, issued in the *Gems of California Scenery* series as number 1110 and published around 1866. Stereoviews like this were widely sold in the 1860s, when Yosemite's cliffs and waterfalls drew great public interest after the valley was set aside by Congress in 1864. Viewed through a stereoscope, the two images merged into a single three-dimensional scene.
| 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. 1110. LOT subdivision subject: Yosemite Valley. This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,453 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115800 |
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