Yosemite Falls, 2630 feet, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal.

Getty Museum

Yosemite Falls, 2630 feet, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal.

Creator

Carleton Watkins

American Photographer · 1829–1916

All works by this person →
AmbrotypistPublisherArtist

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,

More on Getty ULAN
Date
1867
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
ab7cac1b-8606-4b91-884f-94c9f4e91fbf
View at Getty Museum ↗

The authoritative record is held by Getty Museum. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.cl6zI-PHqWqp5-To.kbvX2xpINFWD45l7T6yz9f4Oo3g9c0DGXmVshlVVFvCTxNnEcXnEL9p8G2wUMBISTHxXW1JNh8H6tK2T7uk2X_qHYyupdoYE-ex1usoef7LpxFVWzuLK8lXjVheiaonmXcQsvrwn2bTU5BBHuZ-XLxVqrLZS4Bn5qAscYZbLh9qW2OTJAiNoOTlb5-5aZ-m7AzQhDZBuCXAfgGt9SaXkErQ7qEhmVuNA5TsYocmE3cIXhpg10969_UHbf9jkcGpzpxNKp_P89CyzXXFVfhQxzguIeI9VIPBnVY6oeJg5k7lviDS85LzR_rxsCsd3WId4hMB90WzBDGN7trsz4iqYpOiGp-irR-5kF2IjhRM0NpFjF4MuU85bY7HMO0q3bPCQbWmSslaVeFy4ZJuSPmQOSee at Getty Museum QR destination: https://linkedculture.org/q/q1.52sXkniqcCfzxUQI.UHy15knAIHJejOpKmR3nurMq8fOExCjWYE61zOGcvkjLsyPkyP7Nl2UzSzBoMKR-IPhPwP91uvsOpZcVPNxq8wtWWKszMv6-PHTwUWkBiMPVwkjopqUUpJ1xWYYAnsA5IWfVG4Tp3d0qz3TT8z1FKtQR2ZkBQSWs52E2eJrmG3o4b-19T3pWfv7pMYiTH0bOz_ovBGAR8Im8r0T1vxe65zRTZG3jafFmemyKPUVU28AQMyGUhYzo8fefWyyZOO3PYg7Q6XYfH70kItE0JuoWw6QaXfF_gilLHLhXthfQlXcSUAkTuVcC3ApT9iZHC94DYVzCSks7wYGIBKtnwcwEwYNUjM73RKTRCjYwnTO0J4WmCecqf2DURhc7whU
Open this page
See at Getty Museum

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Getty Museum and other institutions.