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[Round Top, Coast and Geodetic Station, 10,700 ft., Alpine County, California]
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Carleton WatkinsAmerican Photographer · 1829–1916
All works by this person →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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- 1879
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- Albumen silver print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
In 1879 George Davidson of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey invited Watkins to photograph his progress as he established a series of stations along California's Sierra summits. Davidson's team posed with their equipment at the Round Top Observatory. From unstable, sloping ground, Watkins made both a mammoth-plate view and a stereograph, with his cameras tilted upward, making adjustments to avoid distortions of perspective.
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