Tag: daredevil

Women at Glacier Point · 1900s

George Fiske (1835-1918) :: Two women doing a “skirt dance” on the precarious Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park, 1900-1902. Glass negative. | src USC Libraries
George Fiske (1835-1918) :: Kitty Tatch and Katherine Hazelston [waitresses in a nearby hotel, the Yosemite’s Sentinel] in their famous cliff-edge dance. Late 1890s. | src NPS
Charles C. Pierce (1861-1946) :: Two people on Glacier Point, three thousand two hundred feet above the Merced River in Yosemite Valley (Nr. 905), 1900-1910. | USC Libraries
Charles C. Pierce (1861-1946) :: Woman (Miss Loomis?) standing on the precarious Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park, 1900-1902 | USC Libraries
Kitty Tatch and Katherine Hazelstine or Hazelston, also nicknamed “Kitty,” nearly can-can themselves off Overhanging Rock in the late 1890s. The pair were waitresses in Yosemite’s Sentinel Hotel and apparently shared a cat-like indifference to stomach-churning drops. Their famous cliff-edge dance was captured by photographer George Fiske. | src San Francisco Gate
George Fiske (1835-1918) :: Two women standing out on the rock are holding hands and doing a high kick to the left. Albumen print mounted on grey/green board. View of Overhanging Rock at Glacier Point.
In ink on verso: Dancers on Overhanging Rock at Glacier Point’. Photographer’s stamp on center of back of mount “Geo. Fiske, Photo. Yosemite Valley, Cal.” | src NPS / YOSE 5252

Kitty Tatch was a maid and waitress at the Sentinel Hotel in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Dressed in long wide skirts identifying her clearly as a woman, she danced and did high kicks at Overhanging Rock, 3,000 feet above the Valley, on Glacier Point with her friend Katherine Hazelston as George Fiske photographed them. These pictures were later made into postcards, autographed by Tatch, and sold for years. / quoted from National Park Service > Women of Yosemite : The Adventurers

Photocomposite from images # 1 (Fiske) and # 3 (Pierce)

Alvin L. Coburn · 1911-2011

Fannie E. Coburn (1848–1928) :: Alvin Langdon Coburn at the Grand Canyon, 1911. Platinum print, printed by Alvin Langdon Coburn. | src George Eastman Museum
Fannie E. Coburn (1848–1928) :: Alvin Langdon Coburn at the Grand Canyon, 1911. Platinum print, printed by Alvin Langdon Coburn. | src George Eastman Museum
Mark C. Klett + Byron Wolfe :: Woman on head and photographer with camera; unknown dancer and Alvin Langdon Coburn at Grand View Point, 2009. Inkjet print, printed 2011. From the series Reconstructing the View Grand Canyon Photographs. | src George Eastman Museum
Mark C. Klett and Byron Wolfe  :: Woman on head and photographer with camera; unknown dancer and Alvin Langdon Coburn at Grand View Point, 2009. Inkjet print, printed 2011. From the series Reconstructing the View Grand Canyon Photographs. | src George Eastman Museum

On the edge of the cliff

Photograph of a person on the edge of a cliff in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1900-1940. | src USC Digital Library
Photograph of a person on the edge of a cliff in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1900-1940. | src USC Digital Library

Photograph of a person on the edge of a cliff in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1900-1940. A steep and tall cliff can be seen from center towards the right. Trees and boulders are visible on the flat top of the cliff, as well as a person standing at the edge at center. The sides of the cliff are composed of smooth rock, while other canyons and mountains can be seen in the left background. 

Photograph of a person on the edge of a cliff in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1900-1940. [detail] From the USC Digital Library
Photograph of a person on the edge of a cliff in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1900-1940. [detail] From the USC Digital Library

Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library

Kings Canyon, Australia. Bast’ for Razzia Collective. Submission for April 2018 “Over the top” special. | src PWS - Photos Worth Seeing
Kings Canyon, Australia. Bast’ for Razzia Collective. Submission for April 2018 “Over the top” special. | src PWS – Photos Worth Seeing

Dancing on the edge, 1925

Vier waaghalzerij dames dansen vrijuit op de rand van een wolkenkrabber in New York, Verenigde Staten, 1925. | Four daredevil ladies dance freely on the edge of a New York skyscraper, United States, 1925. | src Spaarnestad Photo

Woman standing on cliff, 1902

Nearly a mile straight down and only a step–from Glacier Point, Yosemite valley, ca. 1902 [detail]
Nearly a mile straight down and only a step–from Glacier Point (N.W.) across valley to Yosemite Falls, Yosemite, Cal.,ca. 1902. Underwood & Underwood. Half stereo card.

Original title: Nearly a mile straight down and only a step–from Glacier Point (N.W.) across valley to Yosemite Falls, Yosemite, Cal. [Description: Woman standing on cliff overlooking deep valley.]. Underwood & Underwood, publishers, New York, ca. 1902. Digital file from original photo : photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. [scanned half stereo] | src Library of Congress

Underwood & Underwood :: Woman standing on cliff overlooking deep valley, 1900-1910
B&W film copy negative from original stereo card | src Library of Congress
View of woman standing on an overhanging rock at Glacier Point with Yosemite Falls seen in the distance. | src ALMA repository