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Vintage Landscape - Yosemite - A party of camera fiends in Valley – Vintage Wall Art

Vintage Landscape - Yosemite - A party of camera fiends in Valley — historic image
Vintage Landscape - Yosemite - A party of camera fiends in Valley. Historic image from the Yosemite collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Vintage Landscape - Yosemite - A party of camera fiends in Valley, a historic image rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Vintage Landscape - Yosemite - A party of camera fiends in Valley

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A group of amateur photographers, known in the period as "camera fiends," posed together in Yosemite Valley, a detail that sets this view apart from the many scenic records of the valley's granite walls and waterfalls. Late nineteenth-century tourism brought growing numbers of visitors to the valley after it came under state protection in 1864, and hobbyists with bulky plate cameras became a familiar sight along its trails. Images like this one capture the travelers themselves as much as the scenery, offering a record of how the valley was experienced and documented by its early visitors.

SubjectsHistoric Print Archive
Original scan4,096 × 3,250 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-196264

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