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Yosemite Valley photographs [graphic] /
BANC PIC 1999.017--CLOCAL
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Title:
Yosemite Valley photographsCreator/Contributor:
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916, creatorAbstract:
1: Bridal Veil Fall, Gorge, etc. [from the Coulterville Trail] no. a11 [very similar to mammoth CEW number 14] -- 2: Cathedral
Rocks 2600 ft. Yosemite no. a12 [near the vantage point of mammoth CEW number 21]-- 3: Yosemite Falls 2630 ft. no. a33 [similar
to mammoth CEW number 52] -- 4: Royal Arches Yosemite no. a43 [similar to mammoth CEW numbers 78 and 80B].
Date:
1865-1866 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caYosemite Valley (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Note:
by Carleton E. Watkins.
Collection title devised by cataloger; date supplied by Peter Palmquist and verified by comparison to similar mammoth plate
views.
Captioned, numbered, and signed in pencil at bottom edge of mounts. Some captions and numbers barely legible.
Images presumably cut down from the 9.5 x 13 in. (24 x 33 cm) plate size used by Watkins in his 1865-1866 Yosemite trip for
the production of large format albums. Prints are slightly larger than half the mammoth plate size.
Type:
graphicAlbumen prints.
Physical Description:
graphic
photoprint
4 photographic prints on mounts : albumen ; images 21 x 31 cm, mounts 42 x 53 cm.
Language:
English
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1999.017--CLOCAL