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Page last updated: October 21, 2022

All glass plate photographs by Harold A. Taylor. Digital images copyright © 2022 by Pinyon Publishing. No reproduction without permission.

Vintage Yosemite

Vintage Yosemite (2022): Glass Plate Photographs of Early 20th-Century Yosemite. (6"x9" paperback, 162 pages, ISBN: 978-1-936671-89-2, $35.00).

YOSEMITE—VALLEY VIEWS

Entrance to Yosemite, View from Historic Artist Point (627a, 8”x10”)  [See More Details]

View from Historic Inspiration Point (537, 8”x10”)  [See More Details]

View from Stanford Point (542, 6.5”x8.5”)

View from Moran Point (600, 6.5”x8.5”)

Gates of the Valley, with 9 people in wagon, 4 horses (679a, 6.5”x8.5”) [Greeting Card]

Gates of the Valley with Merced River and Bridalveil Fall (558a, 6.5”x8.5”)

Gates of the Valley with Merced River and Bridalveil Fall (558b, 6.5”x8.5”)

Gates of the Valley: July 24, 1903 (562, 6.5”x8.5”)

Indian Acorn Cache (531, 8”x10”)

Indian Camp (528, 8”x10”)

Oak Trees, Yosemite Valley (615, 6.5”x8.5”)

Haymaking wagon below Yosemite Falls in Cooks Meadow (503a, 8”x10”)

Haying piles Ledig Meadow looking west toward Cathedral Rocks (674a, 8”x10”)

Entrance to Yosemite, View from Artists Point (627b, 8”x10”)

Additional Images from Duplicate Glass Plates

Gates of the Valley, with people in wagon (679b, 6.5”x8.5”)

Haymaking, Yosmite Falls. Cooks Meadow (503b, 6.5”x8.5”)

Haying piles Ledig Meadow (674b, 6.5”x8.5”)

Three Arrows Studio (672, 6.5”x8.5”)

Chapel, canvas tent, and Sentinel Rock in background.

Trail through woods (5”x7”)

Big cedar tree (661, 6.5”x8.5”)

Harold Taylor labeled this image "Harp of Oeron," which we think might refer to the "Harp of Oberon." Carl Maria Weber (German Romantic composer, musician) composed an opera "Oberon" (the elf king), first performed in 1826. And around 1842, Elias Parish-Alvars composed solo harp music "Fantasia on themes from Weber's Oberon."

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