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Black Point, San Francisco
Creator
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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- about 1864
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
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- American
- Department
- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Tourists in the late 1800s enjoyed collecting stereographs as mementos of their travels, often purchasing twin images for home stereoscopes or unmounted halves for travel albums. For that reason, Carleton Watkins stocked an inventory of views of all the sightseeing spots in San Francisco. In this stereoscopic set he featured the children of Jessie Frémont, an influential friend who is believed to have inspired Watkins to make his first visit to Yosemite Valley in 1861. Made in San Francisco, near Frèmont's Black Point cottage, this image is one of the earliest surviving photographs of nude figures made in California. Gift of Weston J. and Mary M. Naef
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