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Title: Lieut. Wheeler's party in Yosemite, 3134
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: 188u
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Stereo-5144.
Shows expedition members, packtrain, horse-drawn triangular cart (surveyor's wheel?), Royal Arches in background.
Orange mount, purple back.
First Lieutenant George Montgomery Wheeler, Engineer Officer on the staff of the Commanding General of the Army’s Department of California, led early scientific expeditions intended to map the United States west of the 100th meridian. In 1878 and 1879 explorations were made in the Yosemite region by Lieutenant Montgomery Meigs Macomb and J.C. Spiller, topographer, and, photographed by Carleton E. Watkins.
Type: image
Format: Stereographic
Stereograph card
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 stereograph card ; 3 1/2 x 7 in.
Identifier: (C)001561226CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Wheeler, George M.. (George Montague),, 1842-1905--Photographs
Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.)--Photographs
Expeditions & surveys--California
Packtrains--California--Yosemite Valley
Rock formations--California--Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Stereographs
Landscape photographs
Expedition photographs
Place: California
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley (Calif.)

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