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Yo-semite Valley, from the Mariposa Trail. Mariposa County, Cal.
Object Details
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Date
1864, printed ca. 1867
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Object Type
Photographs
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Medium
Albumen silver print
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Object Format
Mammoth plate
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Dimensions
Image: 15 11/16 x 20 3/8 in.
Mount: 19 5/8 x 23 1/2 in. -
Inscriptions
Mount recto:
inscribed: Thomas Houseworth & Co., Publishers, \ 317-319 Montgomery St., San Francisco. \ Yo-Semite Valley, from the Mariposa Trail. \ Mariposa County, Cal. \ No. 1.
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Credit Line
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Amon G. Carter, Jr. Memorial Fund purchase
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Accession Number
P1984.6.1
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Copyright
Public domain
Object Description
Weed is considered the first photographer to document Yosemite, a valley called Ahwahnee (“gaping mouth-like place”) by its Indigenous inhabitants, the Ahwahnechee. After the discovery of gold in the area, a California militia and the U.S. Army warred with the Ahwahnechee in an ultimately successful attempt to dispossess them of their land.
Weed moved to Sacramento soon after. He first ventured into Yosemite in 1859 and, a few years later, made mammoth-plate views like this one using the albumen process, which produced clear images able to be printed multiple times. Here he has captured the scope of the landscape, emphasizing the height of the pine—from the figure at its base to its apex—and the breadth and depth of the valley. In 1867 this and other views of Yosemite by Weed and Carleton Watkins earned bronze medals at the Paris International Exposition.
—Text taken from the Carter Handbook (2023).
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Location: Off view
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