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Upper Yosemite Fall 1600 ft. from Eagle Point Trail. – Historic Reproduction

Upper Yosemite Fall 1600 ft. from Eagle Point Trail., 1879 — historic photograph
Upper Yosemite Fall 1600 ft. from Eagle Point Trail., 1879. Historic photograph from the Yosemite collection.

(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 rare historic photograph captures Upper Yosemite Fall 1600 ft. from Eagle Point Trail. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Upper Yosemite Fall 1600 ft. from Eagle Point Trail.

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Upper Yosemite Fall, seen from a vantage point about 1,600 feet up on the Eagle Point Trail, gives a view of the waterfall that few visitors of the era could easily reach. Carleton Watkins, the California photographer known for his large-format work in the Yosemite Valley, made the negative, and this stereo card was published by William I. Marshall, who sold views of the valley and the Pacific Coast in the 1870s and 1880s. Stereographs like this one were viewed through a hand-held viewer to create a three-dimensional effect, and they brought the valley's cliffs and falls into parlors across the country. The card belongs to Watkins' New Series, a later set of views that helped establish Yosemite's image as a national landmark.

Created / published1879
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen.
NotesOriginal negative number: 3148. Title from item. Part of series: Watkins New Series [of Pacific Coast Views]. · Marshall William I. (William Isaac) 1840-1906 publisher.
SubjectsYosemite National Park (Calif.)--1870-1880.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Stereograph Cards
Original scan4,950 × 2,542 px · prints to 16 × 8 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-STV-269657

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