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Title: Best general view of the Yo-Semite Valley, No. 2
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1865 and 1866]
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: Individual plates in: [Photographs of California and Oregon, n.d.], v. 1, plate no. [2].
Elevated view of valley with Half Dome in distance. Also visible are El Capitan, Cathedral Rock, Bridal View Fall, Yosemite Point.
2009-1751.
Also have negativeS no.: 9128 (70 mm) and 29,132 (4x5 in. color transparency)
Restricted original.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print : albumen ; image 18 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. on page 24 x 29 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001415999CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Valleys--California--Mariposa County
Mountains--California--Yosemite Valley
Rock formations--California--Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Landscape photographs
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place: California
Mariposa County
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite Valley (Calif.)

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