From the "Best General View," Mariposa Trail

From the "Best General View," Mariposa Trail

Photograph

Carleton E. Watkins

Maker
American, 1829–1916

From the "Best General View," Mariposa Trail

From Watkin's Pacific Coast


1865–66
Albumen silver print, printed 1871–1875
Image: 3 1/8 × 3 1/16 in. (7.9 × 7.7 cm)
Mount: 3 7/16 × 6 15/16 in. (8.7 × 17.7 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
Inscriptions Printed on mount on recto, LC: Watkin's Pacific Coast, \ 22 and 26 Montgomery Street, opposite Lick House entrance, San Francisco.
Printed on mount on recto, BR: From the "Best general View," Mariposa Trail, 1134. \ Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal.
Printed on mount on recto, RC: Photographic Views of California Oregon, and the Pacific Coast generally- embracing \ Yo Semite, Big Trees, Geysers, Mount Shasta, Mining, City, etc., etc. \ Views made to order in any part of the State or Coast.

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