El Capitan
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El Capitan

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Photograph

Ansel Adams

Maker
American, 1902–1984

El Capitan

ca. 1938
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 9 1/2 × 7 13/16 in. (24.1 × 19.9 cm)
Gift of Larry Sykes
Inscriptions Typed on applied label on verso, C: YOSEMITE NEWS BUREAU \ YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK \ Released by Yosemite Park and Curry Co. \ EL CAPITAN \ Largest known granite monolith, El Capitan \ rises almost perpendicularly 3,604 feet above \ the floor of Yosemite Valley. Merced River \ in foreground. \ This photo is furnished without charge. Editors are \ requested not to use it without mention of Yosemite \ in the caption. \ Photo by
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