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Cathedral Spires – Vintage Print

Cathedral Spires — historic image
Cathedral Spires. 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.)

Description

A window into the past: Cathedral Spires, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.

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Cathedral Spires

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Rising above the Yosemite Valley floor, the spires in this view belong to the granite walls that draw climbers and tourists alike from around the world. Yosemite was set aside by Congress in 1864 as a protected grant, a decision that predates the national park by eight years and helped make the valley one of the earliest preserved natural landscapes in the United States. The formations, shaped by glacial erosion over long spans of time, have inspired generations of painters and photographers who sought to capture their dramatic verticality. Looking closely, you can see how the rock's sheer faces and fractured crests reveal the forces that carved the valley.

Original scan1,205 × 1,716 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceWY The Yosemite Cathedral Spires

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