View from Cosmopolitan, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal.

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View from Cosmopolitan, 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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Date
about 1867
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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Object ID
74d6aa7a-6e2b-45c1-96f6-0415a54e1b2e

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View across a lawn with overgrown plants; on the left, a large tree trunk splits in three, with the right branch broken off. A portion of a porch is visible on the far left. In the background, a fence runs horizontally across the frame, with rows of trees and a faint rock face beyond.

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