Grizzly Giant 33 feet diameter, looking up.

Grizzly Giant 33 feet diameter, looking up.

Photograph

Carleton E. Watkins

Maker
American, 1829–1916

Grizzly Giant 33 feet diameter, looking up.

From Watkins' Pacific Coast


ca. 1866
Albumen silver print, printed ca. 1867
Image (each image): 7.5 × 7.6 cm (2 15/16 × 3 in.)
Mount: 8.2 × 17.1 cm (3 1/4 × 6 3/4 in.)
Purchase, ex-collection Fred S. Lightfoot
Inscriptions mount recto LC (letterpress): C. E. WATKINS, \ PACIFIC COAST

mount recto BR (letterpress): Grizzly Giant, 33 feet diameter, looking up, \ Mariposa Grove, Mariposa County, Cal. \ 1163.

mount recto RC (letterpress): Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by C.E.WATKINS, \ in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, \ for the Northern District of California.

mount verso C (printed): [award recognition]

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