Desolation Valley Lake Tahoe, California, 1910 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with Desolation Valley Lake Tahoe, California, 1910, a historic image rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Desolation Valley, Lake Tahoe
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Desolation Valley Lake Tahoe, California, 1910
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Desolation Valley, in the granite country west of Lake Tahoe on the California side, was in 1910 a place few people reached except on foot, on horseback, or by the lake steamers and rail lines. The Tahoe basin had drawn lumber cutting and mining demand since the Comstock boom of the 1860s and 1870s, and by the 1900s summer cottages and camps were turning the shoreline toward tourism. The Lake Tahoe Railway had reached the north shore from Truckee around 1900, carrying campers and anglers to lakeside villages. The surrounding backcountry stayed lightly settled, with trails, meadows, and high lakes that visitors from the Sacramento Valley and the Bay Area came to see. This view shows that wild, thinly used country on the eve of the automobile era.
| Created / published | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Creator | parker, harold a. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--California |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,047 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Desolation Valley, Lake Tahoe |
| Reference | CA Desolation Valley Lake Tahoe 1910 |
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