The Yo-Semite Valley (4060 feet above sea) from Mariposa Trail – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of The Yo-Semite Valley (4060 feet above sea) from Mariposa Trail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Yo-Semite Valley (4060 feet above sea) from Mariposa Trail
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This stereograph is titled for its vantage point, the view from the Mariposa Trail, with the valley floor given as 4,060 feet above sea level. The Mariposa Trail was one of the routes that carried visitors down into Yosemite Valley, so the card shows the approach as well as the valley itself. Published in 1870 by William I. Marshall as part of a numbered series of Yosemite views, it is an albumen print mounted on card and meant to be seen through a stereoscope. Cards like this were popular parlor items in the years after Congress set aside the valley for public use in 1864, and they helped introduce the region to people who would never make the journey.
| Created / published | 1870 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | 3525 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. No. 1187. 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 | 4,849 × 2,407 px · prints to 16 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-269740 |
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