"El Capitan, Yosemite", California, ca. 1920-25. Glass orotone, though not signed, it is undoubtedly his work. Framed in an arts-and-crafts frame with the original paper backing with a lable from Pillsbury's Pictures, Inc. Additional backing added later, the framer cut our the hand writen title and pasted it to the covering. Galss image apprx 6-3/8" x 4-1/4". Overall in frame apprx 7-1/8" x 4-3/4". Arthur Pillsbury specializing in glass orotones and set up a photographic studio in Yosemite Valley in 1907, when he bought out the firm of Hallet-Taylor, and remained there until 1928, when he sold out to the Yosemite Park and Curry Company. His photographs depict the many facets of Yosemite Valley as it was opening up to an increasing tourist trade at the beginning of the twentieth century.
500/1,000 Sold $891.25
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