Yo-Semite Fall (2634 feet high) from Glacier Point – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Yo-Semite Fall (2634 feet high) from Glacier Point comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Yo-Semite Fall (2634 feet high) from Glacier Point
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Yosemite Falls, which the card gives as 2,634 feet high, is the subject here, seen from the vantage of Glacier Point on the valley's rim. Stereographs like this one were sold in large numbers in the 1870s, and this card belongs to a numbered series of Yosemite Valley views issued by the publisher William I. Marshall. Yosemite had only recently drawn national attention: it had been set aside by Congress as a protected grant in 1864, and by 1870 travelers were arriving by stagecoach to see its waterfalls and granite walls. Looking at the card through a stereoscope gave the viewer a sense of depth across the valley floor and the falls.
| Created / published | 1870 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | 3512 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. No. 1174. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley. · Marshall William I. (William Isaac) 1840-1906 publisher. |
| Subjects | Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,867 × 2,421 px · prints to 16 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-269728 |
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