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Title
Three people peering through a spy-glass at the Glacier Point Lookout in Yosemite National Park, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of three people peering through a spy-glass at the Glacier Point Lookout in Yosemite National Park, ca.1900. Two women and one man can be seen from behind standing on top of a stone lookout. They are looking towards the right at mountains in the background. The woman at center can be seen looking through binoculars, while a wooden roof overhang can be seen at left. Photoprint reads: "A vantage point which offers one of the rarest panoramas in the world -- over the peaks of the High Sierras".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
17 x 16 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m20832
USC-1-1-1-14235 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-46342
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m20832
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-46342.jpg
Subject
Glacier Point (Calif.)
Yosemite national park (Calif.)
National parks and reserves
Mountains
Natural features--Mountains--General--Identified
Parks
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
California
USA
Source
84-1-428 [Microfiche number]
CHS-46342 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 46342 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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