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Watkins, Carleton E.
American (1829-1916)

TITLE ON OBJECT: From the foot of the upper fall of the Yosemite

1861
collodion stereo positive on glass
6.2 x 7.5 cm. on 8.3 x 17.1 cm. mount
Gift of C. R. Witherspoon
GEH NEG: 19790
82:2364:0004

OLD GEH NUMBER: 2354
NON-GEH NUMBER: pub. series #0073

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Naef, Weston & Wood, James N. --Era of Exploration.-- Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975. pl. 15B.//
Grenbeaux, Pauline. "Before Yosemite Art Gallery: Watkins' Early Career.", --California History--, Vol. LVII, no. 3, 1978 Fall. p. 236-241.//
Palmquist, Peter. --Carleton E. Watkins: Photographer of the American West.-- Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(signature in ink) "title Yo Semite Watkins

FRAME: stereoview on glass mount

NOTES: Cataloged 8/85, SB. No. 73 in Baird Collection. See trade publication; Norton, Russell. --Yosemite Photographs by Carleton E. Watkins, 1861--. New Haven: n.d., p.11. See Watkins IF for list of glass stereos from L. Smaus.

SUBJECT: landscape, waterfalls / Yosemite Falls

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