Tutocanula, or El Capitan, 3600 feet, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, California
Carleton E. Watkins American
Not on view
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.
