Hunter in the Yosemite Valley – Antique Wall Art
(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.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Hunter in the Yosemite Valley. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Hunter in the Yosemite Valley
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A hunter, rather than a landscape or the valley's famous granite walls, is the figure at the center of this stereograph, which sets it apart from the many Yosemite views of the same era. It is one of the American Views series issued in the 1870s by the publisher William I. Marshall, whose cards were sold to a public eager for images of the American West. Stereo cards like this were viewed through a hand-held stereoscope, which gave the scene a three-dimensional depth that flat prints could not. The valley was then becoming a national symbol of wilderness, so a figure set against its scenery shows how visitors and photographers framed the land for audiences far away.
| Created / published | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | Title from item. Part of series: American Views - Yosemite Valley Cal. No. 7450. · Marshall William I. (William Isaac) 1840-1906 publisher. |
| Subjects | Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,916 × 2,495 px · prints to 16 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1147_Hunter_in_the_Yosemite_1875 |
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