Yosemite Falls from Glacier Point
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Yosemite Falls from Glacier Point
ca. 1938
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 9 3/8 × 7 1/8 in. (23.8 × 18.1 cm)
Gift of Larry Sykes
Inscriptions Stamped in black on verso, TC: PHOTOGRAPHED \ IN \ YOSEMITE \ BY \ ANSEL ADAMS
Typed on applied label, OA: YOSEMITE FALLS — from Glacier Point [handwritten] \ Mightiest of all Yosemite waterfalls, Yosemite Falls makes a vertical \ drop of nearly half a mile to the floor of Yosemite Valley. The Upper \ Fall alone drops 1,430 feet – equal to 9 Niagaras piles one on top of \ the other. The Lower Fall drops 320 feet. Between, for a third of a \ mile, is a series of falls and cascades which drop 675 feet.
Typed on applied label, OA: YOSEMITE FALLS — from Glacier Point [handwritten] \ Mightiest of all Yosemite waterfalls, Yosemite Falls makes a vertical \ drop of nearly half a mile to the floor of Yosemite Valley. The Upper \ Fall alone drops 1,430 feet – equal to 9 Niagaras piles one on top of \ the other. The Lower Fall drops 320 feet. Between, for a third of a \ mile, is a series of falls and cascades which drop 675 feet.
