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Overhanging Rock
A well-dressed man overlooks Yosemite Valley, Half Dome, and the Sierra Nevada mountains from Overhanging Rock, which is at the edge of Glacier Point.

Photograph courtesy of National Archives

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Published May 11, 2010

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