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Carleton E. Watkins : photographer of the American West

by Peter E. Palmquist, Martha A. Sandweiss

This collection showcases nineteenth-century landscape photographs of Yosemite Valley, a favourite subject of the photographer. The historic images significantly influenced the United States Congress' decision to preserve the region as a national park.

Accession 31767 ISBN 0826306594 Publisher University of New Mexico Press
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