Mount Broderick and Nevada Fall, Yosemite

Mount Broderick and Nevada Fall, Yosemite

Item Information

Title:
Mount Broderick and Nevada Fall, Yosemite
Title (alt.):
The Cap of Liberty and Nevada Fall, Yosemite
Description:
From catalogue raisonné: This feature was first named Mount Broderick by Josiah Whitney and his California State Geological Survey associates in honor of U.S. senator David C. Broderick (1820-1859) and was known as such by Watkins. An 1871 map listed it as "Mt. Broderick or Cap of Liberty." By 1878 Broderick's name had been removed and reassigned to a nearby, less dramatic peak. Snow's Hotel (see cat. no. 244) is visible at bottom left. This view was made looking northeast from a position approximately halfway between Emerald Pool and Clark Point on the present-day John Muir Trail.
Photographer:
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date:
1861
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Albumen prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Photographs of the American West
Series:
Carleton Watkins Photographs
Subjects:
Mountains
Waterfalls
Forests
Places:
California > Mariposa (county) > Yosemite Valley (area)
California > Mariposa (county) > Yosemite National Park
California > Mariposa (county) > Liberty Cap (peak)
California > Mariposa (county) > Nevada Fall (waterfall)
Extent:
1 photograph : albumen print on paper mount ; image 40 x 52 cm, on sheet 56 x 71 cm
Permalink:
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Alternative title from item back.
Catalogue raisonné number: 242
Photographer negative number: 89
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
Naef, Weston and Christine Hult-Lewis. "Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs." J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011, Los Angeles.
Identifier:
22_14_000039