Vernal Falls, Yosemite Valley – Vintage Print
(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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A window into the past: Vernal Falls, Yosemite Valley, preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Vernal Falls, Yosemite Valley
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Vernal Fall, the 317-foot cascade on the Merced River near the head of Yosemite Valley, is the subject here, and the record ties this view to Anthony's Photographic Bulletin for September 1895, where it was reproduced as an illustration. That placement matters: the magazine was a trade journal for photographers, so the image circulated among working practitioners as a model of landscape work as much as a scenic view. Yosemite was a favorite subject for American photographers in the 1880s and 1890s, when the valley's falls drew steady crowds and the new halftone process made photographs practical to print in periodicals.
| Medium | 1 print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1895 |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, vol. 26, Sept. 1895. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: Waterfalls; Printing...; Photog.--Hist.; Calif.--Y- V-; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,054 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-134934 |
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