Yo-Semite Fall (2634 feet high) from the Glacier Cascade – Vintage 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.)
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Yo-Semite Fall (2634 feet high) from the Glacier Cascade 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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Yo-Semite Fall (2634 feet high) from the Glacier Cascade
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Yosemite Fall, at 2,634 feet, is the subject here, seen from the vantage of the Glacier Cascade, a detail that places the viewer on the rocky slope rather than on the valley floor. The card is an albumen stereograph from 1870, issued as number 1223 in a series of Yosemite Valley views published by William Isaac Marshall, who sold scenes like this to visitors and armchair travelers in the decades after the valley was set aside as a protected grant in 1864. Stereo cards such as this were viewed through a hand stereoscope, so the paired images gave the falls and granite walls a sense of depth that a flat print could not. The card was also registered for copyright, a common step for commercial photographers of the period.
| Created / published | 1870 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | 3561 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. No. 1223. 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 | 4,871 × 2,421 px · prints to 16 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-269736 |
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