Lower Yosemite Falls – Vintage Print
![Lower Yosemite Falls, [ca. 1865] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/82/821d5df81909-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.)
Description
A window into the past: Lower Yosemite Falls, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Lower Yosemite Falls
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Lower Yosemite Falls is the subject here, the lower of the two tiers that make up the valley's tallest waterfall, which drops in a series of cascades from the rim of the granite walls. Made around 1865, this albumen print belongs to the decade when photographers first brought Yosemite Valley to public attention, a few years after Congress set the valley aside for public use in 1864. The albumen process, with its fine detail and warm tone, was the standard for landscape views of the period. Its large format captures the falls and the rock around them in the sharp detail that made such images widely sold to viewers who would never see the valley themselves.
| Created / published | [ca. 1865] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Landscape photographs 1860-1870.Mammoth plates 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | Waterfalls--California--1860-1870. Yosemite National Park (Calif.)--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,186 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-149997 |
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