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Title
[From the Mariposa Trail] (3 views)
Creator
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued
[1865]
Contributing Institution
California State Library
Collection
California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information
Restricted original.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description
Attributed to Carleton Watkins - reasonably certain Library's collection of mammoth prints printed from negatives by Watkins.
Shows El Capitan, Bridalveil Fall, Cathedral Rocks, Half Dome (in far distance), Union Point.
View 1 (2010-0587). From the Mariposa Trail, Yosemite. Watkins no. 3a -- view 2 (2010-0588). From the Mariposa Trail, Yosemite. Watkins no. 3a -- view 3 (2010-0589). From the Mariposa Trail, from a higher elevation, Yosemite. Watkins no. 3b.
Also have negative: no. 8869 (70 mm, 4x5 in.) for 2010-0588; no. 8870 (4x5 in.) for 2010-0589.
Restricted original.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
3 photographic prints mounted on linen : albumen ; 16 7/8 x 21 1/2 in. on mount 18 x 22 5/8 in. or smaller.
Identifier
(C)001455099CSL01-Aleph
Language
English
Subject
Mountains--California
Valleys--California
Waterfalls--California--Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--Photographs
El Capitan (Calif.)--Photographs
Cathedral Rocks (Calif.)--Photographs
Bridalveil Fall (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Landscape photographs
Place
California
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley (Calif.)
El Capitan (Calif.)
Cathedral Rocks (Calif.)
Bridalveil Fall (Calif.)

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