[Yosemite National Park, California] ca. 1878 Carleton E. Watkins This exceptionally rare untitled album features seventy-three circular-format views made seventeen years after Watkins first photographed at Mariposa Grove and Yosemite. Half of the photographs are studies of the great sequoia trees in Calaveras Grove, the other half are landscapes of Yosemite. Watkins used a stereo camera with oversize plates then masked the negatives during the printing [Yosemite National Park, California]. Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916). ca. 1878. Albumen silver print from glass negative.
[Yosemite National Park, California] ca. 1878 Carleton E. Watkins This exceptionally rare untitled album features seventy-three circular-format views made seventeen years after Watkins first photographed at Mariposa Grove and Yosemite. Half of the photographs are studies of the great sequoia trees in Calaveras Grove, the other half are landscapes of Yosemite. Watkins used a stereo camera with oversize plates then masked the negatives during the printing [Yosemite National Park, California]. Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916). ca. 1878. Albumen silver print from glass negative. Photographs
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