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Title: 7713 above sea level, "Tehipite" Dome, 3631 from base to top, middle fork of King's River - Fresno, Co. Cal
Creator: Dusy, Frank, 1836-
Contributor: Winchell, Lilbourne Alsip, 1855-
Date Created and/or Issued: 1879
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2017-0473.
"Photo by Frank Dusy, July, 1879, L.A.W. By formal vote we confirmed the Indian name for this superb rock "Te-hip-i-te" - meaning, in the Kings' River Indian dialect 'High Rock.' First photograph ever made of this dome. Made on old time wet-plate" -- handwritten on verso.
Type: image
Format: Unmediated
Sheet
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photograph : cardboard mount, print ; 10 x 8 in.
Identifier: (C)001601057CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Mountains--California
Fresno County (Calif.)--Photographs
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Pictorial works
Tehipite Dome (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Landscape photographs
Place: California
Fresno County (Calif.)
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Tehipite Dome (Calif.)