The Bridge – Historic Photograph 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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The Bridge comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Within a set of Yosemite Valley views, this stereograph is titled "The Bridge," and its record also ties it to a U.S. topographical and geological survey series by J.W. Powell and A.H. Thompson, which is worth keeping in mind when reading its catalog entry. The card is an albumen print mounted on stereo card, and its two nearly identical images were meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, which fused them into a single three-dimensional scene. Stereoviews like this were a popular parlor and travel item in the 1870s, and many were sold as souvenirs of distant or famous landscapes. Collector Marian S. Carson's name in the record shows how such cards passed through private collections before reaching institutional holdings.
| Created / published | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | No. 190. 52. Title from item. Part of series: U.S. topographical and geological survey of the valley of the Colorado River of the west by J.W. Powell and A.H. Thompson. Part of series: View of Tantalas Creek. · Carson Marian S. collector. |
| Subjects | Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,951 × 3,226 px · prints to 17 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-268790 |
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