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LEMBKE, CARL L. [Yosemite Valley] Yosemite Valley, California. Gelatin silver prints. Oakdale, California: Carl L. Lumbke, Panoramic Photographer, n.d. [1920s]. Album with twenty-nine mounted panoramic photographs of Yosemite Valley. The photographs measure approximately 8.5 x 29.5 cm (3 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches) or reverse. Affixed to the front paste-down of the album is a business card with a montage of three photographs of Yosemite Valley that reads: "Carl L. Lumbke / Panoramic Photographer / Oakdale, Calif." The album, measuring 17 x 39.5 cm (6 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches), has "Yosemite Valley" stamped in gold on front cover. The album has been professionally refurbished with spine ends restored; minor fading to several photographs, a few with silvering around the edges; very good overall. Enclosed in a custom cloth clamshell box, velvet lined with leather spine label. (#157204).