Tip Top of the Sentinel Dome (Watkins' Camp)

Tip Top of the Sentinel Dome (Watkins' Camp)

Photograph

Carleton E. Watkins

Maker
American, 1829–1916

Tip Top of the Sentinel Dome (Watkins' Camp)

From Watkins' Pacific Coast


1866
Albumen silver prints
Image (each): 3 1/8 × 3 1/16 in. (8 × 7.7 cm)
Mount: 3 7/16 × 6 15/16 in. (8.7 × 17.6 cm)
Museum accession
Inscriptions Printed in black on recto, L: WATKINS' PACIFIC COAST, \ 22 & Montgomery St., opposite Lick [?] House entrance, San Francisco
Printed in black on recto, R: Photographic Views of California, Oregon, and the Pacific Coast generally - embracing \ Yosemite, Big Trees, Geysers, Mount Shasta, Mining City, etc., etc. \ Views made to order in any part of the State or Coast.
Printed in black on recto, BR: Tip Top of the Sentinel Dome, \ Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal. \ 1142.
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BR: Watkins had an 18 x 22 camera, which he built himself, on his \ first trip to Yosemite in 1861. The tripod, the camera by the dark tent \ look large enough to be that size -

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