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Binh Danh daguerreotypes of Yosemite National Park

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Description: 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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Production date: 2012, 2017.
Call number: photPF 26033
Creator: Danh, Binh (1977-)(Opens in new tab)

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."

photPF 26000

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Yosemite National Park 1891

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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.

photCL 81

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Parking Space Under Construction

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Pavement is being laid and flattened in the public parking lot for the San Marino ranch. A slightly different version in the same folder has an MS note on verso that reads "August 14 1952."

HIA 60.1.14

Parking lot of the San Marino Ranch after snowfall, January 11, 1949

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A view of the parking lot on the San Marino Ranch after a rare southern California snowfall. MS note on verso reads "Jan. 11, 1948". Date should read January 11, 1949.

photCL 107 folder 19 (20)

Parking lot of the San Marino Ranch after snowfall, January 11, 1949

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A view of the parking lot on the San Marino Ranch after a rare southern California snowfall. MS note on verso reads "Huntington grounds ; snow scene, Jan. 11, 1948". Date should read January 11, 1949.

photCL 107 folder 19 (21)

Parking lot, circa 1937

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View of a large number of cars on a paved and lined parking lot. The label that accompanies this photo in the album reads "No. 143 Auto parking space, about 1937."

photCL 107 vol4 pg133 (143)

Binh Danh daguerreotypes of Yosemite National Park

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