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[Thurlow Lodge - Lawn View]

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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: 1874
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

While capturing the grandeur of this broad expanse of lawn, Carleton Watkins carefully framed two sculptures within the surrounding trees. He did a good deal of business with newly wealthy residents of California, documenting both the interiors and exteriors of their estates, such as this one. These new millionaires frequently designed their properties after stately English homes, following the late 1800s fashion on the East Coast. Although the West Coast was geographically isolated from such urban centers as Boston and New York, it was not immune to their trends.

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