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85 x 125 mm.

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50 x 70 mm. A distant view looking up at a man (perhaps Tymms) and two women stood on the overhanging rock at Glacier Point.

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70 x 110 mm.

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49 x 71 mm.

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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49 x 70 mm.

Scope and Contents 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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70 x 110 mm. A view of Tymms and three women stood on a rock beside the lake. Their reflections are visible in the lake itself, although all but one of them has their head chopped off the image.

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110 x 70 mm. Showing Tymms and three women sat on a rock beside Mirror Lake.

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67 x 48 mm.

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71 x 50 mm.

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110 x 183 mm. A similar view to Y3089C/74, with the mountain and trees reflected in the lake.

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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A view from one side of the falls, looking at the rush of water beyond the pine trees in the foreground.

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69 x 49 mm.

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48 x 69 mm.

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110 x 184 mm. A view looking along towards the summit of the Sentinel Rock, from a point above the valley floor.

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110 x 183 mm. An interestingly composed view showing part of the zigzag path up the mountainside, with cliffs on either side and a horse sanding on the path.

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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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50 x 70 mm.

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48 x 69 mm.

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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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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.