Nationality
American
Artist Dates
1864 - 1938
Title of Work
Preview
Date of Work
c. 1899
Date of Work
1899
Medium
Stereoscopic Slide
Height
3.5
Width
7
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection.
Status
Stored: SS-Box-JSP-1
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Additional Information
Black and white photo of three women sitting on an outcropping of a large rock formation. Of to the left hills can be seen in the distance.
Text on front left:
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers Publishers
Copyright 1899, by
B. L. Singley. Made in U.S.A.
Text on front below image:
5004 - Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, Cal., U.S.A.
Text on front right:
Meadville, Pa., St. Louis, Mo., Portland, Ore., New York, N.Y., Toronto, Can., London, Eng.
Text on back:
Here, we see three venturesome girls standing on the great projecting rock at Glacier Point. With characteristic temerity, they are all standing on the overhanging part of this granite monolith (it is only 5 feet wide) looking over a sheer cliff of 3257 feet. The rocks shut off the view of the high Sierras, but one of the nameless rounded peaks of the chain, is visible in the far distance, At the lower left-hand side of the view, the "Cap of Liberty" near Nevada Falls, and three miles away from Glacier Point, is clearly seen. While away beyond, stretches the faint outline of "Little Yosemite Valley" in its course to the high Sierras.
A scene like this illustrates the invaluable virtue of being peaceable. What if those girls should get to quarreling and hair-pulling! Let us have peace! Next we see a little child, the loveliest of the flowers, in the midst of ten acres of bloom.
Condition
Very Good