Yo-Semite Fall (2634 feet high) from above Sentinel House – Antique Print
(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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Step back in time with Yo-Semite Fall (2634 feet high) from above Sentinel House, a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Yo-Semite Fall (2634 feet high) from above Sentinel House
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Yosemite Fall, which the title gives as 2,634 feet high, is the subject of this 1870 stereograph card, shot from a vantage point above Sentinel House, the hotel that stood near the valley floor. Stereoviews like this were sold in sets, and this one is number 1224 in a series of California views of Yosemite Valley issued by the publisher William Isaac Marshall. Viewed through a stereoscope, the paired images gave the waterfall and surrounding granite a sense of depth that flat photographs could not, which helped make Yosemite a national attraction in the years after it was set aside by Congress in 1864.
| Created / published | 1870 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | 3562 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. No. 1224. 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 | 4,863 × 2,420 px · prints to 16 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-269727 |
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