Arch Rock near Point Pinos Lighthouse

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Arch Rock near Point Pinos Lighthouse

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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
1870–1875
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
a858d151-e7cb-4f17-8c19-bed66e5628ac

Arch-topped print of a coastal rock formation with natural archway, near Point Pinos Lighthouse.

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