Carleton E. Watkins photograph collection

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

1859-1881

PC-RM-Watkins

Mammoth plate photographs of San Francisco, Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove, taken by Carleton Watkins and printed between 1859 and 1881. Contains images of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, a San Francisco panorama, El Capitan, Cathedral Rock, Yosemite Fall, Nevada Fall, and other features of the Yosemite area. Includes a portrait of Galen Clark standing in front of the Grizzly Giant in Mariposa Grove.

Source of titles and negative numbers: Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, by Weston Naef, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011.

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