Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, Cal. – Vintage 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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This rare historic photograph captures Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, Cal. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, Cal.
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Glacier Point rises roughly 3,200 feet above the floor of Yosemite Valley, and this stereograph captures the sweeping view that drew late-nineteenth-century visitors to its edge. Keystone, the Meadville, Pennsylvania firm known for mass-producing stereo cards of American scenery, issued the card, and viewers held it up to see the scene in apparent depth. Most visitors of that era reached the overlook on horseback or on foot, and it became one of the valley's most popular stops. The record is limited, so the exact date and photographer remain uncertain.
| Created / published | c1899. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by Keystone. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 820 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-126184 |
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