YOSEMITE PHOTO ALBUM.


BOYSEN STUDIO. Album of 51 silver print photographs of Yosemite landmarks, c.1903, each 187 x 235 mm laid down to album leaf, with hand-lettered captions in white ink to each page, 2 photographs with Boysen Studio imprint in the plate, and "Boysen Studio / Yosemite Valley California" hand lettered to rear pastedown, some oxidation to margins of a few images, album with stamped red cloth covers, some shelfwear.GORGEOUS YOSEMITE VIEWS. Julius Boysen (1868-1939) ran a photography kiosk at Yosemite from 1898 until his death. He was a Kodak representative, and specialized in selling cameras and film to park visitors, as well as developing pictures for guests. He was also an able photographer in his own right, and the present souvenir album features pictures likely by him (two bear his imprint) of Yosemite Valley (in summer and winter), Bridal Veil Falls, Cathedral Rocks, El Capitan, Sentinal Rock, Half Dome, Union Point, Mirror Lake, Vernal Falls, Glacier Point, Cascade Falls, Nevada Falls (and a "Zig Zag trait to the top of" the same), several images of the giant redwoods, Mono Lake, and more. There is even a picture of a young man mid-somersault atop a high point, and a view of gold miners in Eureka.