19TH CENTURY AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS
CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829-1916)

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CARLETON E. WATKINS (1829-1916)

Yosemite, 1860s-70s

Album of eighteen mammoth albumen prints, approx. 20 5/8 x 15 5/8in. or the reverse, each titled in pencil on mount, half morocco, ruled in gilt, folio.
Literature
Palmquist, Carleton E. Watkins, Photographer of the American West, pl. 38 (illus.)

Lot Essay

Titles as follows:
'Sugar Loaf Islands, Farallons'
'The Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point'
'Mirror View of El Capitan, 3600 feet, Yosemite'
'Glacier 1st, Yosemite', 'The ....Fall, 300feet, Yosemite'
'The 3 Brothers, 4480 feet, Yosemite'
'Cathedral Rocks, 2600 feet, Yosemite'
'Cathedral Spire, Yosemite'
'The Yosemite Falls'
'The Bridal Trail 900 feet, Yosemite'
'Down the Valley, Yosemite'
'Mirror View of the North dane'
'Mirror Lake, Yosemite'
'Mirror View of the 3 Brothers, 4480 feet, Yosemite'
'Mammoth Grove Hotel, Calaveras'
'The Cathedral Swamp House through the Sentinels, Calaveras Grove'
'George Washington The Eagles Wing, Calaveras Grove'
'Salt Lake City and Tabernacle, Utah'
'El Capitan, Yosemite'.

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