McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 320

Title: McCarthy Album 09, Photograph 320
Description: Caption: "Yosemite Falls - View From Glacier Point," c. 1917. Yosemite Falls in the distance, as seen from Glacier Point. The highest waterfall in Yosemite National Park, Yosemite Falls is made up of two successive cascades falling a total of 2,425 feet from the top of the Upper Fall to the base of the Lower Fall. The Upper Fall alone is 1,430 feet high, and is one of the top twenty highest waterfalls in the world.
Contributor: Audrey Fullerton-Samora of Sacramento, great niece of William and Grace McCarthy, donated the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection to the California State Archives in 1996.
Coverage: Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County, California
Date: 1917
Format: JPEG, scanned at 400 DPI, 24-bit color
Identifier: 96-07-08-alb-09-320
Language: English
Publisher: California State Archives, a division of the California Secretary of State's Office
Source: Image of an item within the William M. McCarthy Photograph Collection (96-07-08)
Subject: Upper and Lower Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park
Type: Still Image