Smithsonian Institution

The Vernal and Nevada Falls, from Glacier Point, Yosemite

ca. 1870, printed ca. 1875

Type: Photography-Photoprint
Medium: albumen silver print
Dimensions: sheet and image: 8 x 12 in. (20.3 x 30.5 cm.)
Credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

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