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Yosemite National Park 1891

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Description: An album with 80 photographs of Yosemite National Park in California showing waterfalls, peaks, rock formations, and hotels. 55 photographs were taken by John Miller Hoffman and show the Wawona Hotel, Chilnualna Falls, Mariposa Grove, Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite Valley, El Capitan, Half Dome, Mirror Lake, and Stoneman House. There are a few photographs of a group of seven men and four women, one near the top of Nevada Falls and another around a tall cairn. 25 of the photographs were taken by George Fiske and show Yosemite Valley, Half Dome, El Capitan, Cathedral Spires, and Sentinel Rock, and Barnard's hotel.
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Production date: 1884, 1891
Call number: photCL 81
Provenance: Purchased from the Argonaut Book Shop, January 1954.
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Views of Yosemite, approximately 1869-approximately 1888

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A collection of 20 photographs of Yosemite National Park in California, mostly taken in Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove. The photographs feature "big trees" (i.e. Sequoia trees) in Mariposa Grove, several waterfalls, such as Nevada Falls, Vernal Falls, Yosemite Falls, and Bridal Veil Falls, and a number of peaks and geological formations, such as Sentinel Rock, Cathedral Spires, the North and South Domes, Cap of Liberty, and El Capitan. Some of the images include people, presumably tourists. The only man-made structure in the album is Black's Hotel. Some of the photographs are by Carleton E. Watkins, some by the Yosemite National Park Co.

photCL 48

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Photograph album of Yosemite Valley

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An album with 48 commercial views by an unknown photographer of Yosemite National Park, including El Capitan, Glacier Point, and several waterfalls. Buildings shown include Black's Hotel, Casa Nevada, Cosmopolitan Bath House, Rock Cottage, and the Sunday School Chapel.

photCL 317

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Collection of California Views

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A collection of 71 photographs with views of California, including the cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara, and lanscapes in Yosemite National Park, Mariposa Grove, and Sunny Slope Winery in San Gabriel. The photographs of San Francisco show hotels, Chinatown, Golden Gate Park, and the homes of people like Governor Stanford, Mrs. Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker, and J.C. Flood. Views of the Yosemite Valley show numerous waterfalls and rock formations such as El Capitan and Half Dome. All of the images except one are photographs by I. W. Taber; one image is a reproduction of an illustrations of a wagon drawn by six horses racing along a cliff, signed E.A. Rockwell and dated 1876 (Item 10).

photCL 103

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California

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Disbound album containing 48 commercial photographs of California, the majority by photographer Isaiah W. Taber, especially of San Francisco, Monterey, and Yosemite. Views of San Francisco show the bay, Fort Point, Palace Hotel, California Street Hill, a Chinese restaurant interior, a vegetable and butcher shop and a Protestant mission school in Chinatown, cable cars, Golden Gate Park, Cliff House, and snow in the city (image dated February 1887). Views of Monterey show the first barracks of U.S. troops, the Hotel del Monte, El Carmel Bay, and a cypress tree. Views of Yosemite show Glacier Point, the Lower Cascades, Yosemite Falls, El Capitan, and the North Dome. Other subjects that appear in only single images are San Rafael, Marin County; Healdsburg, Sonoma County; the J. C. Flood residence, also known as Linden Towers, in Menlo Park; Mission San Luis Rey; Mount Shasta; the Geysers, Sonoma County; Riverside; Santa Barbara; a black oak forest; a monument at the Mexico-California border; Calaveras; Mariposa Grove; a mountain lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains; Lick Observatory, near San Jose; a vineyard house; and an orange grove in Los Angeles County. Many of the photographs can be attributed to I. W. Taber; others are ascribed to "J. R. B."

photCL 159

[El Capitan, Yosemite]

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[Watkins no. 8] Dome-topped print. Written in pencil at bottom: "Tutu Canuta - El Capitan 3600 ft. Yo Semite." Signed.

photCL Watkins 49

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Stereoscopic views of Yosemite Valley, California

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Stereograph views of waterfalls and mountains in Yosemite Valley, California, from the series "Glories of the Yosemite, California," published by E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., including the following titles: Apex of the Three Brothers (#53); From the Top of Vernal Falls. Glacier's Point, 3705 ft. high, in the distance (#54); Sentinel Rock, 3270 feet high. From Mariposa Trail (#59); View on the Merced. Hutchings' Hotel and Bridge. Sentinel Rock in the distance (#63); View at the foot of Bridal Veil Falls (#70); The Three Graces, 3750 ft. high (#72); Cap of Liberty, 4240 ft. high (#87); West Mountain (#105); Eagle Cliff (#106); Leydig's Hotel (#117); Yosemite Falls, 2634 ft. high (#147); Mt. Watkins. From Cloud's Rest. Little Yosemite Valley (#183).

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Yosemite National Park 1891

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