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Ansel Adams photographs of Bridalveil Fall and El Capitan, Yosemite
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Ansel Adams photograph reproduced on a Hills Bros. coffee can
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This collection consists of two items: A Hills Brothers coffee can with a wraparound image of Ansel Adams' "Winter Morning, Yosemite Valley, California" and a flat version of the same image, on tin, before it was shaped into a can. The can has the original plastic lid with the Hills Bros. name and logo. The coffee cans were made in 1969 in a collaboration between Adams and Hills Bros. Coffee Company. The company licensed Adams' photograph "Winter Morning, Yosemite Valley" to reproduce on its three-pound coffee cans, and sold them in a limited edition.
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Ansel Adams at Museum of Modern Art, New York City
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Portrait of photographer Ansel Adams in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, at the 1979 exhibition "Ansel Adams and the West." Adams stands with arms folded, facing the camera and standing next to his photograph, "Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite." The exhibition title is on wall above photograph.
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Photographic trade card for Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery
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A late-19th century photographic trade card, 3 1/4 x 5 inches, with a photograph of Yosemite Valley by Carleton Watkins mounted on the front, and printed promotional information for Watkins' photography studio on the back. The verso reads: "The Yosemite Valley, from the Mariposa Trail. / You are most cordially invited, together with your friends, to visit Watkins' Yosemite Art Gallery, portrait and landscape, 22 and 26 Montgomery Street, opposite Lick House entrance, up stairs, San Francisco, Cal. ..." More text follows, describing the types of photographs available, and ends with "C. E. Watkins."
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Bridalveil Falls, 1956
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This collection contains photographs, negatives, and some ephemera chiefly collected by California conservationist and editor William H. Thrall (1873-1963) for use in Trails magazine. Thrall served as managing editor of the publication from 1934 to 1939, which was produced to encourage the use of mountain trails and outdoor recreation in Los Angeles County. The collection includes approximately 1200 prints (Boxes 1-4); 68 glass negatives (Boxes 7-8); approximately 2300 film negatives; 150 slides; and miscellaneous documents and ephemera, and a folding pocket camera. The photographs primarily date from the 1930s, but also include copy prints (and some originals) of late 19th and early 20th photographs. The images depict mountain and forested landscapes and outdoor recreational activities including hiking, skiing, and camping, chiefly in the San Gabriel Mountains and surrounding mountains of Southern California. Many of the photographs include individuals involved in recreational activities as well images of historical mountain pioneers. The photographs chiefly consist of 4.5 x 2.75 inch snapshots and 8 x 10 and 6 x 10 inch prints, by photographers including Dan P. Alexander, Carl H. Bauer, Harlow Dormer, C. C. Vernon, and Thrall. There is also a group of glass plate negatives and film negatives, including a group of unprinted film negatives that appear to be personal photographs with views of nature, groups of people, family scenes, buildings, boating, and trips, in the 1930s-1950s (Box 15). The film negatives have handwritten numbers presumably assigned by Thrall. Many of the prints appear in Trails magazine, which was published quarterly by the Mountain League of Southern California from Winter 1934 to Spring 1939 (Volume 6, No. 1). In Autumn 1941, the Southern California Outdoor Federation began publishing a new edition of Trails Magazine (without Thrall as editor), but only two issues were published (Volume 2, Nos. 1-2).
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Binh Danh daguerreotypes of Yosemite National Park
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Two contemporary daguerreotypes of views in Yosemite National Park by artist Binh Danh. The first image, Yosemite Falls, April 15, 2012, is a traditional landscape view, 6.5 x 8.5 inches, matted and framed, 11.5 x 13 inches, and signed on the verso. The second image, Tunnel View parking lot, 2017, is 5 x 7 inches, matted and signed on the verso; this image emphasizes part of the parking lot and various tourists at a Yosemite viewpoint. The daguerreotypes were made using a 19th-century photographic processing technique that produces a photograph directly on a silver-coated copper plate.
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El Capitan, 1954
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This collection contains photographs, negatives, and some ephemera chiefly collected by California conservationist and editor William H. Thrall (1873-1963) for use in Trails magazine. Thrall served as managing editor of the publication from 1934 to 1939, which was produced to encourage the use of mountain trails and outdoor recreation in Los Angeles County. The collection includes approximately 1200 prints (Boxes 1-4); 68 glass negatives (Boxes 7-8); approximately 2300 film negatives; 150 slides; and miscellaneous documents and ephemera, and a folding pocket camera. The photographs primarily date from the 1930s, but also include copy prints (and some originals) of late 19th and early 20th photographs. The images depict mountain and forested landscapes and outdoor recreational activities including hiking, skiing, and camping, chiefly in the San Gabriel Mountains and surrounding mountains of Southern California. Many of the photographs include individuals involved in recreational activities as well images of historical mountain pioneers. The photographs chiefly consist of 4.5 x 2.75 inch snapshots and 8 x 10 and 6 x 10 inch prints, by photographers including Dan P. Alexander, Carl H. Bauer, Harlow Dormer, C. C. Vernon, and Thrall. There is also a group of glass plate negatives and film negatives, including a group of unprinted film negatives that appear to be personal photographs with views of nature, groups of people, family scenes, buildings, boating, and trips, in the 1930s-1950s (Box 15). The film negatives have handwritten numbers presumably assigned by Thrall. Many of the prints appear in Trails magazine, which was published quarterly by the Mountain League of Southern California from Winter 1934 to Spring 1939 (Volume 6, No. 1). In Autumn 1941, the Southern California Outdoor Federation began publishing a new edition of Trails Magazine (without Thrall as editor), but only two issues were published (Volume 2, Nos. 1-2).
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