Glacier Point, 3201 feet, Yosemite Valley, Cal. / Taber Photo., San Francisco, Cal. – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Glacier Point, 3201 feet, Yosemite Valley, Cal. / Taber Photo., San Francisco, Cal.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Glacier Point, 3201 feet, Yosemite Valley, Cal. / Taber Photo., San Francisco, Cal.
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Glacier Point, which the title gives as 3,201 feet, is a granite promontory on the south rim of Yosemite Valley, with a sheer drop to the valley floor and a direct view across to Half Dome. Taber, a San Francisco photographer, built his reputation documenting Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada in the 1870s and 1880s, when the valley was becoming a major destination for visitors arriving by stage and horseback. The print was registered with the U.S. Copyright Office, a step that helped photographers protect their views from being copied. Its cliff-edge vantage shows why the point drew so many visitors.
| Created / published | c1887. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1880-1890. |
| Notes | 21050S U.S. Copyright Office. No. 3047. |
| Subjects | Cliffs--California--1880-1890. Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,303 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-177768 |
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