Little Yo-Semite Valley from Cap of Liberty – Antique Print
(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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Step back in time with Little Yo-Semite Valley from Cap of Liberty, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Little Yo-Semite Valley from Cap of Liberty
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Taken from Cap of Liberty, this view looks down on Little Yosemite Valley, the upland meadow along the Merced River above Nevada Fall, which tourists of the 1870s reached only by a rough trail. The card is one of a numbered series on the Yosemite Valley, and its notice of copyright registration in 1870 shows it was prepared for sale soon after the valley's scenery had become widely known. Viewed through a stereoscope, the two nearly identical photographs merge into a single image with depth, letting the granite walls and meadow seem to recede into the distance.
| Created / published | 1870 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph albumen. |
| Notes | 3533 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. No. 1195. Part of series: California - Views in the Yo-Semite Valley. · Thum M. (Mandeville). |
| Subjects | Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 4,863 × 2,437 px · prints to 16 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-269189 |
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