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

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