Calaveras Grove of Big Trees

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Calaveras Grove of Big Trees

Creator

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
1875–1878
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Object ID
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View of the base and root structure of a downed tree trunk in the middle of a conifer forest; sunlight peeks through the trees behind it.

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