Panorama Album

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a panoramic must be worth a million.

This page features albums of Panoramic photos form the Goldne gate National Recreationa areas Archival collections. We wonder if you know who anyone might be? There is no way to document every individual who has stepped through the lands that now make up the GGNRA, nor to visualize every landscape through every era. But, through these photos, a glimpse is possible.

The History of Panoramic Photography by the Library of Congress discusses an almost natural progression from being able to take photos to wanting them to be bigger. This page shows some of the military uses for troops and landscapes, but who really knows why the military was interested?

At one point in the early 20th century the military changed its use of photography to take advantage of this wide angle trend by capturing both troop unit portraits and views of its camps and there surrounding landscapes. Most of the Panoramics from the GGNRA's collection stop in the mid 1920's and there is no real evidence as to why. Much Later a few photographers would pick up the craft and contiune to capture the people and places of the park.

 

Fort Barry, Marin Headlands, 1913

GGNRA, Park Archives, GOGA 18515

 

 

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Images within these galleries may be used for any legitimate non-commercial public or press use with proper credit given to the National Park Service. If you have any questions or additional information on these images, please contact the Park Archives and Records Center's reference archivist at 415-561-2807 or Contact Us.