The Yosemite Falls 2634 ft. – Vintage Wall Art
(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 The Yosemite Falls 2634 ft., 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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The Yosemite Falls 2634 ft.
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The title gives this fall a height of 2,634 feet, a figure printed on the card itself and one that helped make Yosemite Falls a standard subject for nineteenth-century travelers. The card belongs to the Watkins New Series of Pacific Coast Views, made from Carleton Watkins's negatives and issued in 1879 by the publisher William I. Marshall. Viewed through a stereoscope, the two slightly offset images gave the falls and the valley walls a convincing sense of depth, which is why such cards sold so widely to people who would never see the valley themselves.
| Created / published | 1879 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | Original negative number: 3105. 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.)--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,881 × 2,486 px · prints to 16 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-269748 |
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