Mammoth Grove Hotel, Calaveras County – Antique Print
![Mammoth Grove Hotel, Calaveras County, [published 1866] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a0/a0d78a228133-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.)
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Step back in time with Mammoth Grove Hotel, Calaveras County, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mammoth Grove Hotel, Calaveras County
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The Mammoth Grove Hotel stood among the giant sequoias of the Calaveras Big Trees grove in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, a place that drew tourists from the 1850s onward after the trees became widely known. The hotel gave travelers a base for seeing trees far larger than most visitors had ever imagined. This print is the left or right half of a stereograph, the paired-image format that viewers examined through a stereoscope to create a three-dimensional effect. Its caption card identifies it as no. 874 in the *Gems of California Scenery* series, and the record's publication date of 1866 is unverified, so it is best read as a period estimate.
| Created / published | [published 1866] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : half stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view. Gems of California scenery, no. 874. LOT subdivision subject: Calavaras Big Trees. This record contains unverified old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,391 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-115497 |
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