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These Photos Prove That Yosemite Has Always Been Beautiful

These Photos Prove That Yosemite Has Always Been Beautiful
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It's not our oldest national park -- that title belongs to Yellowstone -- but it sure is pretty.

Yosemite National Park, which was first protected in 1864, is one gorgeous spot for waterfall-spotting, hiking through crazy tall sequoias and taking in breathtaking vistas in and around its 1,200 square miles.

To mark the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Yosemite Grant Act, the Park has released beautiful vintage shots of California's first state park

Yosemite Falls & Merced River
Courtesy of the Yosemite Research Library
Ahwanee Hotel
Courtesy of the Yosemite Research Library
President Roosevelt & John Muir on horseback
Courtesy of the Yosemite Research Library
Tourists at Wawona Tunnel Tree
Courtesy of the Yosemite Research Library
Yosemite Chapel, 1966
Courtesy of the Yosemite Research Library
Yosemite Valley from Wawona Tunnel, 1933
Courtesy of the Yosemite Research Library
View from Union Point, 1866
Courtesy of the Yosemite Research Library
View from Union Point, 1961
Courtesy of the Yosemite Research Library
Completion of Mariposa Road Celebration, July 1875
Courtesy of the Yosemite Research Library

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