Looking Down the Valley from Union Point, Yosemite

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Looking Down the Valley from Union Point, Yosemite

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Carleton Watkins

American Photographer · 1829–1916

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At twenty, Carleton Watkins headed out to California to make his fortune. After working as a daguerreotype operator in San Jose, he established his own practice and soon made his first visit to the Yosemite Valley. There he made thirty mammoth plate and one hundred stereograph views that were among the first photographs of Yosemite seen in the East. Partly on the strength of Watkins's photographs,

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Date
1879
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Albumen silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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Object ID
6df417ca-18a2-41f5-bf20-3d53f4f7c652

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Elevated view through a valley, with a large rock formation on the left, a smaller shadowed rock formation on the right, and a valley with distant mountains in the background.

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