Yo-semite Valley. Clouds' Rest, 6,450 feet high, from near the top of South Dome, looking east – Historic Print
![Yo-semite Valley. Clouds' Rest, 6,450 feet high, from near the top of South Dome, looking east, San Francisco : Thomas Houseworth & Co., [ca 1870] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b8/b89655378bfd-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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This historic photograph of Yo-semite Valley. Clouds' Rest, 6,450 feet high, from near the top of South Dome, looking east brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Yo-semite Valley. Clouds' Rest, 6,450 feet high, from near the top of South Dome, looking east
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From a vantage near the top of South Dome, this stereograph looks east toward Clouds' Rest, a granite summit that rises beyond the Yosemite high country, with the trees of the valley in the foreground. Thomas Houseworth & Co. of San Francisco issued the card around 1870, when the firm was one of the main publishers of Yosemite views for travelers and armchair tourists. Its two slightly offset images were meant to be seen through a stereoscope, which gave the granite domes and the depth of the valley a three-dimensional presence. The card's albumen print, catalogued as number 1665, shows how the valley's dramatic scenery was packaged for home viewing in the years after it was set aside as a state park.
| Created / published | San Francisco : Thomas Houseworth & Co., [ca 1870] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen. |
| Genre | Landscape photographs 1870.Stereographs 1870.Albumen prints 1870. |
| Notes | Title from item. No. 1665. Forms part of the Marian S. Carson Collection at the Library of Congress. |
| Subjects | Trees--California--Yosemite Valley--1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,306 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-208695 |
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