DONNER/TAHOE SIERRA NOTECARDS--
by Thomas Moran, 19th century landscape painter.

views from early California:

Donner Lake. by Thomas Moran, 1874.
Lake Tahoe. by Thomas Moran, 1874.
Summit of the Sierras. by Thomas Moran, 1874.
Eagle Falls above Emerald Bay at Lake Tahoe. Picturesque America, 1874.

Mountain scenery etchings are reproduced from artistic--now historical--engravings published in books from the 1870s, such as VistaBooks has often used in its own reprints. Notecards are 4 1/2" wide by 6" tall when folded, black on cream-colored stock. Insides are 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 are-sealable bag. Notes fold with full image on front side, 1/4 spreading onto back which includes caption text; 2 inside pages are blank for notes.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-092-4. Order #: VIST0092 notecards$12.95.

 

 

Text on the four scenes in Donner-Tahoe Sierra notecards:

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 Siera Nevada mountains of California and Nevada. by Thomas Moran; an engraving from Picturesque America, 1874.

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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