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Donner-Tahoe Sierra Notecards
by Thomas Moran  

Donner-Tahoe Sierra notecards. vist0092 all

Donner-Tahoe Sierra notecards.

by Thomas Moran, 19th century landscape painter.

Views from early California of Donner Lake, Lake Tahoe, and Summit of the Sierras--all by Thomas Moran, plus Eagle Falls above Emerald Bay.

Mountain scenery etchings are reproduced from artistic--now historic--engravings published in books from the 1870s, such as VistaBooks has often used in its own book reprints. Notecards are 4 1/2" wide by 6" tall when folded, black ink on cream stock. Insides ae blank, providing 2 1/2 pages of writing space.
Set includes 8 notecards (2 scenes each of the 4 shown) with 8 matching envelopes in a re-sealable plastic bag.Please allow extra time for delivery.


ISBN: 0-89646-092-4. Order #: VIST0092 notecard$12.95.

The four scenes in Donner-Tahoe Sierra notecards:

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 Text on cards, left to right:

DONNER LAKE, 5,933 feet above sea level, in California's Sierra Nevada, site of Donner Party emigrant tragedy. By Thomas Moran; an engraving from Picturesque America, 1874.

LAKE TAHOE, 6,229 feet above sea level, in he Sioera Nevada mountains of California and Nevada. By Thomas Moran; an engraving from Picturesque America, 1874.

vistsierraSS Donner/Tahoe Sierra notrecards vistg0092 Eagle Falls

SUMMIT OF THE SIERRAS, at the crest of the Sierra Nevada of California. By Thomas Moran; an engraving from Picturesque America, 1874.

EAGLE FALLS above Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe. "...from an immense clff nearly a thousand feet above the level (of the bay) a cascade pours itself in white wrath. The source of the cascade is in another lake behind the mountains and in a basin fed by the melting of eternal snows and wooded by the stoic pines.

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