Stumps cut by Donner Party in 1846, Summit Valley.

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Stumps cut by Donner Party in 1846, Summit Valley.

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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
about 1876
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Albumen silver print
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American
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Photographs
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View of a heavily forested area where a man sits on a tree stump; the ground around him is scattered with many cut-down trees.

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