General view of the great Yo-semite Valley – Vintage Wall Art
![General view of the great Yo-semite Valley, [no date recorded on shelflist card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/34/347771b44ee5-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: General view of the great Yo-semite Valley, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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General view of the great Yo-semite Valley
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Yosemite Valley in the Sierra Nevada of California is the subject here, shown as a broad panoramic view of the valley floor framed by its towering granite walls. The shelflist card associates the print with the Nahl Brothers, a name tied to a family of 19th-century photographers and lithographers who issued many scenic views of the American West, though the card leaves the date unrecorded and the attribution is unverified. Yosemite was set aside by Congress in 1864 as a protected grant, which helped make images like this one popular with eastern audiences curious about the region's dramatic scenery. Note how the scale of the cliffs dwarfs the meadow and trees in the foreground, a compositional choice that was central to the landscape views of the period.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on shelflist card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Nahl Brothers. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,109 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109844 |
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