Audrey Fullerton-Samora of Sacramento, great niece of William and Grace McCarthy, donated the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection to the California State Archives in 1996
Date Created and/or Issued
1917
Publication Information
California State Archives, a division of the California Secretary of State's Office
Caption: "Yosemite Falls - View From Glacier Point," c. 1917. Yosemite Falls in the distance, as seen from Glacier Point. The highest waterfall in Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Falls is made up of two successive cascades falling a total of 2,425 feet from the top of the Upper Fall to the base of the Lower Fall. The Upper Fall alone is 1,430 feet high, and is one of the top twenty highest waterfalls in the world.
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