Yosemite Valley with El Capitan at left – Antique 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Yosemite Valley with El Capitan at left. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Yosemite Valley with El Capitan at left
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El Capitan rises on the left edge of this view, its sheer granite face towering over the valley floor. The photograph was taken from the air and copyrighted by Spence Air Photos of Los Angeles, a commercial aerial photography firm, which explains the high, sweeping angle over the valley. The date, around 1947, comes from the caption card and has not been independently verified. Yosemite Valley was carved by glaciers over a very long time, and by the 1940s its cliffs and waterfalls had drawn climbers, photographers and visitors for decades.
| Created / published | c1947 Dec. 29. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | J3421 U.S. Copyright Office Photograph copyrighted by Spence Air Photos, Los Angeles, Cal. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,067 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-150470 |
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