Tutocanula, or El Capitan, 3600 feet, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, California

Carleton E. Watkins

1865–66 · Albumen silver print from glass negative · Photographs

On his first trip to Yosemite Valley, in 1861, and on almost every visit thereafter, Watkins made stereoscopic negatives as well as mammoth-plates. He returned to San Francisco in 1861 with one hundred stereo views and made hundreds more in 1865 and 1866 while working on the Geological Survey for the State of California. He copyrighted this photograph in 1867 and released it as no. 1,118 in his popular "Watkins’ Pacific Coast" series. His San Francisco address, 429 Montgomery Street, and the yellow card mount indicate that he printed and sold the stereograph between 1869 and 1871.

Artist

Carleton E. Watkins

Date

1865–66

Medium

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Anonymous Gift, 2014