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Searching for Cliff House finds all images with the words Cliff or House. Images with both words are listed first in the results.
Searching for 1003 finds images with the number 1003. Several numbers can be searched at the same time, for example 1003 1045 3723 will find all images with those numbers.
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By default your search includes results with any of the search words. A search for Yosemite Valley includes
all results with either the words Yosemite or Valley. Alternately you may choose to only show results containing all the search
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You can also exclude results with specific words. Searching for Valley and excluding Yosemite will show results
containing Shasta Valley, Spring Valley, etc. but not Yosemite Valley.
Watkins used a specially constructed camera to expose 18 x 22 inch glass plates. He created over 1200 mammoth plate photographs during his career. Watkins photographs of Yosemite were very influentual in creation of the park.
Watkins was widely recognized for his photographs during this time, receiving a medal from the Paris International Exposition in 1867.
This group of photographs are known as Watkins Old Series and are some of the earliest photographs of California and Oregon.
After the loss of his earlier negatives to a creditor during a financial crisis, Carleton Watkins started photographing anew in the mid-1870s.
Watkins' "New Series" stereographs begin with series number 3001.
