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Watkins #1 - First View of Yosemite Valley from Mariposa Trail
Image courtesy of: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles   (Accession Number 85.XM.11.1)
Photographers number:1
Title:First View of Yosemite Valley from Mariposa Trail
Date Photographed: 1865-1866
Catalog:Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, cat. no. 115
Notes:CMP notes: CEW# on CSL print from the album Photographs of California and Oregon. This view was made from west of Inspiration Point looking northeast from a position on present-day Stanford Point with El Capitan to the left of center (USGS El Capitan, California Quadrangle). See SPBNY November 1, 1979, R. Swain Gifford collection, sale 4295A, lot 301.

Photographer:Carleton E Watkins   (Nov 11, 1829 — Jun 23, 1916;  Active approx. 1853 — 1896)
Publisher:Carleton Watkins
Format:Mammoth Plate
Medium:Albumen
Image Size:16 3⁄16  x  20 5⁄8  in.  (41.1 x 52.4 cm)  —  Horizontal, Rectangle
Mount Size:21 7⁄8  x  26 1⁄2  in.  (55.6 x 67.3 cm)
Provenance to 1900:Daniel Wolf  (source: 1985/JPGM notes)

View this image in gallery:Mariposa Grove and Mariposa Trail
Link to image source:http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/55581/carleton-watkins-first-view-of-the-valley-american-about-1866/
CarletonWatkins.org Image ID:1005657
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