Scope and Contents 191 x 236 mm. A view from a little below Glacier Point, showing Lily Langtry in silhouette standing on the small finger of rock which reaches out over the valley. The picture looks out across the valley, with the Half Dome (8852 feet) at the left of the picture, and snow-capped peaks of the Sierra Nevada in the distance. Lily Langtry’s presence in the photograph would date it to between 1882-3, at which time she went on her tour of America having become a professional actress the year before...

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241 x 186 mm. A view of seals basking on two rocks, possibly at Seal Rock, Oregon. Photograph by Taber, San Francisco.

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302 x 204 mm. A view from the valley floor looking along the river towards the cliffs in the distance.

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307 x 202 mm. A view looking through trees and along the length of the valley, showing the sheer rock faces that tower above the valley. El Capitan can be seen at the left of the picture with a waterfall opposite which falls into the Merced River in the valley, and with Half Dome in the distance.

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203 x 305 mm. A view of the base of Wawona, the famous Sequoia tree through which a hole measuring 11 feet by 8 feet has been cut. A coach is passing through the hole, while two couples pose at either side of the tree. Mariposa Grove situated in the Yosemite National Park, contains about 200 giant Sequoia.

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204 x 300 mm. A view looking along a road on the valley floor, with this huge waterfall in the background. A man stands on the road in front of the falls, thus giving an indication of scale.