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Sun pictures of the Yo Semite Valley, Cal
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of a sweeping landscape view of Yosemite Valley in the western Sierra Nevada mountains in California; small figures on horseback at bottom right are dwarfed by the towering cliffs.
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Rare Books
Watkins made these photographs in Yosemite in 1861, with a camera he made himself to hold glass plate negatives measuring 18 x 22 inches, which was the largest size ever used at that time. The photographs are scenic landscape views of Yosemite Valley, including rivers, waterfalls, massive granite cliffs and boulders, and giant sequoia trees in the Mariposa Grove. One view depicts naturalist Galen Clark (1814-1910) standing in front of the ancient sequoia called Grizzly Giant.
RB 379010 : Vol. 1
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Rare Books
This album contains 30 reduced-size copies of Carleton E. Watkins' 1861 mammoth plate photographs of Yosemite and Mariposa Big Trees. The album was made by publisher D. Appleton & Company approximately 1865-1866, for sale to the public. The images in this album are 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches and have domed tops. The title page reads: "Album of the Yo-Semite Valley, California, D. Appleton & Company, 443 & 445 Broadway, New York."
406039
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Rare Books
Watkins made these photographs in Yosemite in 1861, with a camera he made himself to hold glass plate negatives measuring 18 x 22 inches, which was the largest size ever used at that time. The photographs are scenic landscape views of Yosemite Valley, including rivers, waterfalls, massive granite cliffs and boulders, and giant sequoia trees in the Mariposa Grove. One view depicts naturalist Galen Clark (1814-1910) standing in front of the ancient sequoia called Grizzly Giant.
379010
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Manuscripts
Journal of a journey to Yosemite Valley and a voyage from San Francisco to the Isthmus of Panama aboard the ship Sacramento.
mssHM 52693
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