View in Yosemite

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View in 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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1861–1880
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Object ID
079a3bd0-0fc3-4a1e-99aa-58169245e133

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View of a heavily forested area with deciduous trees; a small wooden shed sits on the left, partially hidden behind a tree, while sunlight filters through the trees and dapples the ground in the background.

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