Carleton E. Watkins
1865-1866 (taken) 1870 (ca, print)
The Yosemite Valley from the Mariposa Trail

Albumen print, card-mounted
3 1/4 x 5 ins
 
Private collection of Ken Burkhart
On the back.
 
The Yosemite Valley from the Mariposa Trail.
You are most cordially invited, together with your friends, to visit the Yosemite Gallery. Entrance, Bradley & Rulofson's celebrated Photographic Establishments No. 429 Montgomery Street, San Francisco.
Our collection of Landscape Views, large, Stereoscopic and intermediate sizes, embracing Yosemite Valley, Mammoth Trees, Geysers, Mount Shasta, Oregon, Columbia River, Pacific Railroad, Coast, Mining, City, etc., etc., will, we feel assured, give you pleasure to examine, as it will use to extend you every courtesy in our power.
Respectfully,
C.E. Watkins, Landscape Photographer
 
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