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Maker: Carlton E. Watkins (1829 - 1916) Born: USA Active: USA Medium: albumen print Size: 11.5 in x 7.75 in Location: USA Object No. 2009.071 Shelf: C-24 Publication: Era of Exploration, The Rise Of Landscape Photography in the American West 1860-1885. by Weston J. Naef. Albright-Knox Art Gallery/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, pl 7 Carleton Watkins, Photographer of the American West, by Peter Palmquist, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1983, pg 30 Nineteenth Century Photographs at the University of New Mexico Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 1989, pg 177 Bonnett and Bonnett, Isaiah West Taber, A Photographic Legacy, Windgate Press, Sausalito, 2004, pg 108 Images of the West, Survey Photography in French Collections, 1860-1880, Musee d'art americain giverny, 2007, pg 17 Eugene Ostroff, Western Views and Eastern Visions, Smithsonian Instituttion, Washington, D.C., 1981, pg 80, #68A Other Collections: University of New Mexico Art Museum, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Denver Public Library Provenance: Klotz Sirmon Gallery Rank: 1000 Notes: Printed after 1875 by Isaiah W Taber from Watkins original negative. To view our archive organized by themes and subjects, visit: OUR COLLECTIONS For information about reproducing this image, visit: THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE

Cathedral Towers, Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916), Albumen silver print from glass negative

Maker: Carleton E. Watkins (1829 - 1916) Born: USA Active: USA Medium: albumen print Size: 3.75 in x 5.75 in Location: USA Object No. 2010.313 Shelf: C-21 Publication: Julia Van Haaften, From Talbot to Stieglitz, Thames and Hudson, NY, 1982, pl 47 Era of Exploration, The Rise Of Landscape Photography in the American West 1860-1885. by Weston J. Naef. Albright-Knox Art Gallery/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, pg 38 Jareckie, American Photography: 1840-1900, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, 1976, pl 49 Fire and Ive, Treasures from the Photographic Collection of Frederic Church at Olana, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2002, pl 34 Other Collections: Boston Public Library, J. Paul Getty Museum Notes: the man holding the rifle is Galen Clark, the first superintendent of Yosemite National Park To view our archive organized by themes and subjects, visit: OUR COLLECTIONS For information about reproducing this image, visit: THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE

Did you know that a single unknown photographer helped change the course of history for Yosemite with his photos back in 1861? The video above tells the

Carleton E. Watkins | [Yosemite National Park, California] | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

When he was twenty-one Carleton Watkins left Oneonta, New York, for California, following the example of Collis P. Huntington, another Oneonta native who had moved to California to make his fortune. After a stint in Huntington's store in Sacramento, Watkins moved to San Francisco where he chanced into an apprenticeship with Robert Vance, the famous daguerreotypist

The Franciscan Missions of California album contains 35 albumen prints taken by Carleton E. Watkins circa 1876-1882. Watkins probably began photographing the missions while returning from a trip to Southern California in 1876, during which he also photographed scenes along the newly constructed Southern Pacific Railroad line. The album is believed to be the earliest general photographic collection produced of the California Missions, and includes photographs of most of the missions found in the state....

Carleton Watkins was renowned for his majestic images of Yosemite, which he first visited in 1861, and for the unsurpassed artistry of his 18 x 22-inch mam...

How one pioneering photographer captured the American West before its ruin—and before his own.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The Palace and Grand Hotels, New Montgomery Street, San Francisco (ca. 1875) Carleton E Watkins, photographer

Carleton E. Watkins (the original Ansel Adams before Ansel became famous) (U.S.A., 1829-1916), "The Yosemite Valley" 1866, from the album Photographs of the Yosemite Valley. Albumen print. Lent by Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) was the consummate photographer of the American West. This exhibition features thirty-six photographs that helped advance the notion that Yosemite was a Pacific paradise, a bit of Eden in North America.

#1155 - The Vernal and Nevada Falls from Glacier Point

Carleton University

Carleton Watkins was the first to truly capture the colossal beauty of the Columbia River Gorge Northwest. He was also a huge reason why we have National Parks.

The definitive photographer of the American west made his name with these photographs of California’s Yosemite Valley, currently on show at New York’s Met. The series inspired President Lincoln to sign a bill preserving the valley’s beauty and laying the foundations for the US National Park system

Watkins #13 - Bridal Veil Fall in Springtime, Yosemite