An Attraction You Don't Want to Miss; The Lure and Lore of Yosemite: A 19th Century View Exhibit at the Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau
Oakhurst, CA (PRWEB) March 05, 2014 -- The Lure and Lore of Yosemite is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of art, literature and ephemera relating to the history of the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove. The Exhibit will be on display at the Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau in Oakhurst, CA throughout 2014.
The exhibit is being displayed in commemoration of the Yosemite Grant 150th Anniversary. In 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant Act, establishing Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove as the first protected wild land for all time. Yosemite and the surrounding communities are honoring this milestone all year with special programs and events.
Materials on display range from Lafayette Bunnell’s account of the ‘discovery’ of the Valley, in 1851, to John Muir’s famous Century Magazine articles (published in 1890) that led to the creation of Yosemite National Park.
Visitors to the exhibit will get a powerful sense of the impact of tourism on Yosemite in the decades between 1870 and 1900. Examples of rare 19th century ephemera on display – rail and stage company brochures, guide-service pamphlets, stock certificates and trade cards for early hotels – all attest to the intense commercial activity of this period.
Yosemite was also a mecca for artists for artists and photographers, many of whose works appear in this exhibit. Highlights include: lithographs by San Francisco artist George Holbrook Baker, magnificent mammoth plate photographs by Carleton Watkins, and an original pencil sketch (from 1855) by Thomas Ayres – who was the first artist ever to draw Yosemite.
Join the Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau in taking this unique journey back through time to experience the "Lure and Lore of Yosemite."
Christi Long, Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau, http://www.YosemiteThisYear.com, +1 559-683-4636, [email protected]
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