Yo-Semite Fall from Glacier Point – Historic Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Yo-Semite Fall from Glacier Point. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Yo-Semite Fall from Glacier Point
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Few vantage points in the Sierra Nevada match the view from Glacier Point, a granite promontory roughly 3,000 feet above the floor of Yosemite Valley, and this card frames Yosemite Fall from that height. Published by William Isaac Marshall as No. 1175 in his California series of Yosemite views, the stereograph was meant to be seen through a stereoscope, which gave the falls and cliffs a three-dimensional depth that suited the parlor-entertainment market of the day. Cards like this carried the valley's scenery to viewers who would never make the trip west, and they helped build the reputation that led to Yosemite's protection as a national park in 1890.
| Created / published | 1870 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | 3513 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. No. 1175. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley. · Marshall William I. (William Isaac) 1840-1906 publisher. |
| Subjects | Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,824 × 2,376 px · prints to 16 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-269738 |
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