Piwyac, or the Vernal Fall, 300 feet, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal.

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Piwyac, or the Vernal Fall, 300 feet, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal.

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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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about 1867
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Albumen silver print
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