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Title: [Falls of the Yosemite on middle fork Merced River, California]
Creator: Ayres, Thomas A. (1816-1858), American, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1855
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Upper and lower Yosemite Falls; figures by campfire and horses near Merced River in foreground.
Handwritten title (on verso): Falls of the Yosemite on middle fork Merced Rvr. Cal[ifornia] Estimated height upper cascade 400 ft lower fall 600 ft total height from base of valley 28,000 ft, by Ayres, 1855. Signature (LL): A. Ayers, [...?] 1855. Note from inventory sheet: Reproduced in Hutchings, California Magazine, v.1:1, July 1856. See 1963.002:0402--D.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on sandpaper: chalk and charcoal 51 x 35.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9v19p650
BANC PIC 1963.002:1326--C
Subject: California, Northern
Mountains
Nature
Rivers
Yosemite Valley (Calif.)

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