Daguerreotype Photography At Yosemite (Post)

    Saw this terrific National Geographic article about the modern use of the antique method of Daguerreotype photography at Yosemite.  

    Cloud Chasing Chariots: Early Yosemite Photographers(Post)

    Imagine it’s 1860.  You want to capture the clouds over Yosemite. But you don’t just hold your hand above the sky, squint and take a picture. There are no hand-held cameras, no phones, no cars, no G

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    AMERICAN MEMORY A great revolution in the history of poster prints was the development of printing techniques that allowed for inexpensive, mass production. The most notable of these, lithography,...

    Printing Ink and Paper(Page)

    From 2001 through 2016 Snapshots of the Past was a printmaker and republisher of fine art prints made from historic maps, prints, photos and other ephemera originally housed at the Library

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    History of the Company Historian Michael J. Simpson has written an article

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    I recently purchased a copy of Gen Timothy Ruggles' portrait - Gen Ruggles