Yosemite Falls
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Yosemite Falls

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Photograph

Ansel Adams

Maker
American, 1902–1984

Yosemite Falls

ca. 1938
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (24.2 × 19.1 cm)
Gift of Larry Sykes
Inscriptions Typed on applied label, OA: YOSEMITE FALLS \ 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.
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