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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: July 9, 2009
Caption: A View Through Time Marker
Additional Description: (Photo caption - middle photo at the bottom of the marker)
Lafayette Bunnell, a member of the Mariposa Battalion, gave names to many of the Valley’s prominent rock formations. He later wrote a book about his first impressions of Yosemite.
(Photo caption - photo on the right side of the marker)
In this 1855 drawing, Valley from Artist’s Point, Thomas Ayres captured the open, park-like nature of Yosemite Valley as it looked in the mid-19th century.
Submitted: March 2, 2013, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p235486
File Size: 3.068 Megabytes

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