Glacier Point Yosemite Valley Mariposa co. Cal. – 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 Glacier Point Yosemite Valley Mariposa co. Cal.. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Glacier Point Yosemite Valley Mariposa co. Cal.
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Glacier Point, the granite overlook rising roughly 3,200 feet above the floor of Yosemite Valley, is the subject here, and this stereograph catches it from the valley side in 1879. Carleton Watkins made the original negatives, and this card belongs to his New Series of Pacific Coast Views, which was published by William I. Marshall in San Francisco. Stereo cards like this were sold by the thousands to parlors across the country, letting viewers see the valley's sheer walls in three dimensions long before most of them would ever travel west. The card's catalog entry dates the view to 1870 in its subject heading, a reminder that Watkins's negatives were often reissued for years after he first made them.
| Created / published | 1879 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | Original negative number: 3084. Title from item. Part of series: Watkins New Series [of Pacific Coast Views]. · Marshall William I. (William Isaac) 1840-1906 publisher. |
| Subjects | Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,941 × 2,525 px · prints to 16 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-269022 |
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