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Saluting Nature Photography Day with an early view of Yosemite Valley, California (LOC)

Image by The Library of Congress
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916, photographer
Yosemite Valley, California
[ca. 1865]

1 photographic print : albumen ; photo 40.2 x 52.4 cm, on mount 54.2 x 65.9 cm.

Notes:
• Title devised by Library staff.
• Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress …. Washington : Library of Congress …, 1975, no. 108.
• Exhibited: "The Illusion of the American Frontier" at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, Nov. 2015-Feb. 2016.

Subjects:
• Valleys–California–1860-1870.
• Mountains–California–1860-1870.
• Yosemite Valley (Calif.)–1860-1870.
Format:
• Albumen prints–1860-1870.
• Landscape photographs–1860-1870.
• Mammoth plates–1860-1870.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.09983

Call Number: LOT 4590, no. 2