Yosemite Falls

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Yosemite Falls

Creator

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
1865–1870
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Object ID
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View across mountain tops and valleys, featuring a large monolith on the center left and a waterfall in the lower center, with a cloudy sky above.

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