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South Dome, Yosemite Valley – Historic Reproduction

South Dome, Yosemite Valley — historic image
South Dome, Yosemite Valley. Historic image from the Yosemite collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic image captures South Dome, Yosemite Valley in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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South Dome, Yosemite Valley

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South Dome rises above the eastern end of Yosemite Valley as one of the granite monoliths that gives the valley its dramatic profile, its flat, rounded face standing well apart from the sheer walls of El Capitan and Half Dome. The valley itself was set aside by Congress in 1864 as a protected grant, one of the earliest acts of federal land preservation in the country, and it drew painters and photographers who wanted to show the public a landscape few had seen. Pictures of the granite domes helped make the case that such scenery deserved to be kept whole. Look for how the rock's smooth surfaces and steep faces read in the light, since that is what many early viewers found so striking.

Original scan5,604 × 7,379 px · prints to 19 × 25 in at 300 dpi
Reference17986u

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