The Three Brothers, 4,000 feet high, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County – Vintage Wall Art
![The Three Brothers, 4,000 feet high, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5e/5ec6ba4c5b9f-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: The Three Brothers, 4,000 feet high, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Three Brothers, 4,000 feet high, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County
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The Three Brothers is a cluster of granite summits that rises above the south wall of Yosemite Valley, and the caption gives its height as 4,000 feet. This print, numbered 1107 in the *Gems of California Scenery* series, is only one half of a matched pair made for viewing through a stereoscope, which gives the scene a sense of depth. Its albumen process, a silver print on paper coated with egg white, was the standard photographic method of the 1860s. Congress had set aside the valley as a protected grant in 1864, and views like this one helped bring images of the place to eastern audiences.
| Created / published | [published 1866] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 1107. LOT subdivision subject: Yosemite Valley. This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,469 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115828 |
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