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Celebration marking the completion of the Mariposa Road to Yosemite Valley, in front of the two-story Coulter and Murphy Hotel, with about thirty people standing and seated along porch and near road; "Welcome Mariposa Road 1875" printed on a tall…

End and side view of covered bridge at Wawona, Calif., 1944, with road rockwork in foreground.

Distant silhouette view of Kitty Tatch and friend dancing on the overhanging rock at Glacier Point, Yosemite, 1890s; with distant view to northeast.

Bear trap built of logs on horse-drawn wagon, in front of Yosemite Store, Yosemite Valley, early 1900s; with about nineteen people standing and seated nearby; bear trap built by Roland Dexter.

Morning sunlight on eastern wall of El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, with Merced River in foreground.

First glacial stage, 2 million years ago, as portrayed in the fourth of six paintings by H. A. Collins, Sr., depicting geologic stages in the carving of Yosemite Valley.

Flood waters in Yosemite Valley, looking across floor of valley from the Chapel to Yosemite Falls during the Flood of 1997.

Galen Clark standing at the base of the Grizzly Giant tree in the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias, Yosemite, in 1858 or 1859.

R.E. Jeffrey's handcrafted motor home, built on the chassis of a 1905 Pierce Arrow; in Yosemite Valley, with Sentinel Hotel in distance.

View across Hetch Hetchy Valley, early 1900s, from the southwestern end, showing the Tuolumne River flowing through the lower portion of the valley prior to damming.