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80 x 125 mm. A view of a Giant Sequoia.

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70 x 110 mm. Showing Tymms with two women and a small boy in (presumably) a lion pen. The women are crouched with a lion cub at their feet.

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110 x 70 mm. Showing three women sat in the lion enclosure with two lion cubs and a mountain lion cub.

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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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110 x 70 mm. A view of a man (presumably Tymms) and three women on horseback at the top of Vernall Falls (not visible).

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110 x 70 mm. Showing Tymms and three women on horseback.

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110 x 70 mm. Showing three men and a woman mounted on horses, with a spare horse between them.

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182 x 110 mm. A view on a woodland road, showing a stage coach with passengers and a team of six horses.

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110 x 182 mm. A finely composed view, taken from some way downstream showing the curtain-like falls, with a mountain in the background, and in the foreground the stream rushing over rocks towards the camera.

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80 x 125 mm.

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50 x 70 mm.

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50 x 70 mm.

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50 x 70 mm. A view of the falls from above.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...

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183 x 110 mm. A view with the Half Dome at the left of the picture, and cliffs and waterfalls at the right.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...

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109 x 183 mm. A view looking across the clear, still water of the lake, which sharply mirrors the trees on the opposite shore and the cliff face which rises beyond.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...

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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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70 x 110 mm. Showing Tymms stood beside a water feature.

Scope and Contents 40 x 60 mm. A view of an automobile passing through a tunnel cut out of Yosemite's famous Wawona Tree, which was cut in 1881 as a tourist attraction. It was the second standing sequoia to be tunnelled (the first, a dead tree, the 'Dead Giant', still stands in the Tuolumne Grove in Yosemite). It stood for 88 summers before it fell during the severe winter of 1968-69. When it fell, the Wawona Tree was approximately 2100 years 234 feet high (71.3 meters), and 26 feet in diameter at the base...

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64 x 42 mm.

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41 x 64 mm.

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214 x 157 mm. A group portrait of six men and one woman, on horseback in the Yosemite Valley. Behind this is a photograph of the group of travellers with A. Elsy among them, but since no key is given identification is impossible. A slightly murky print, due to under-exposure and probably taken by an amateur photographer.