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[Bridalveil Fall from Cathedral Trail, Yosemite National Park, Calif.] – Antique Wall Art

[Bridalveil Fall from Cathedral Trail, Yosemite National Park, Calif.], [ca. 1860] — historic photograph
[Bridalveil Fall from Cathedral Trail, Yosemite National Park, Calif.], [ca. 1860]. Historic photograph from the Yosemite collection.

(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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[Bridalveil Fall from Cathedral Trail, Yosemite National Park, Calif.] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Bridalveil Fall from Cathedral Trail, Yosemite National Park, Calif.]

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Bridalveil Fall is one of the first waterfalls in Yosemite that a visitor sees on entering the valley, and this view, taken from the Cathedral Trail, shows it from a vantage point that few early photographers bothered to reach. The record dates the print to about 1860, a period when Yosemite was newly known to outsiders and photographers were carrying heavy glass-plate equipment up the valley's rough trails. Images like this helped convince a skeptical public that the valley's cliffs and falls were real, and they later supported the case for setting the area aside as a protected park. The print is worth studying for the way the falling water is set against the granite walls.

Created / published[ca. 1860]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreLandscape photographs 1860.Photographic prints 1860.
SubjectsWaterfalls--California--1860. Mountains--California--1860. Yosemite National Park (Calif.)--1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,280 × 1,016 px · prints to 4 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124053

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