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Finding Aid to Mammoth Plate Photographs of Yosemite Valley, between 1861 and 1881
BANC PIC 1959.066--C
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Collection Title: Mammoth plate photographs of Yosemite Valley
Date (inclusive): between 1861 and 1881
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1959.066--C
Creator:
Watkins, Carleton E.
Farquhar, Francis Peloubet
Extent:
27 photographic prints : albumen ; images 40 x 54 cm. or smaller, mounts 48 x 61 cm.
13 digital objects
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: Yosemite views, with one image of the Columbia River, Oregon.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research, except for originals, which are restricted. Use viewing prints or digital facsimiles only:
Shelved as BANC PIC 1959.066--PIC. Use of originals only by permission of the appropriate curator. Inquiries concerning these
materials should be directed, in writing, to the Curator of Pictorial Collections, The Bancroft Library.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head
of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-6000. Consent is given on behalf of The
Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright
owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html .
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], Mammoth Plate Photographs of Yosemite Valley, BANC PIC 1959.066--C, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley
Digital reproductions of selected images (those created by Carleton E. Watkins) are available.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Albumen prints
Landscapes (Representations)--California
Mammoth plates
Photographs.
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Farquhar.
Scope and Content of Collection
Yosemite views, with one image of the Columbia River, Oregon. Photographs are mostly mammoth-plate sized, with several in
the smaller imperial plate dimensions. Although formerly assembled in a single mammoth album, views appear to be from negatives
taken in the 1860s on up to Watkins' "New Series" of the 1878-1881 period.
Note
Some bear printed labels from Watkins' New Series, others captioned in ms.