Title:
[Beardsley and Hite Hotel (Cedar Cottage), Yosemite]
Creator/Contributor:
Weed, Charles L., photographer
Abstract:
A view of the hotel building exterior, with horses and several human figures assembled. Four of the seated figures have been
identified (from left to right) as J.M. Hutchings, Rev. Ferdinand Ewer, Mrs. (Sophi) Ewer, and Miss Marianna Neil, members
of the Hutchings party that photographer C.L. Weed accompanied.
Date:
[June 22, 1859]
Subject:
Buildings
Hotels
Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Note:
This image was loaned to Ansel Adams for exhibition at the 1939 Golden Gate International Exhibition and was shown as the
first photograph taken in Yosemite Valley. Later research suggests it was taken three days after a view of Yosemite Falls
that is in the collections of Stanford University.
Also known as "Upper Hotel" and, after 1864 as Hutchings House.
Type:
Salted paper prints
Local Call Number:
BANC PIC 1958.024:38--ffALB
Filename:
brk00041403_8a.tif
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