Sutro Tunnel's Road to Virginia City

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Artist: Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916)
Date: 1875, printed ca. 1876
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Gift of Carole and Irwin Lainoff, Ruth P. Lasser and Joseph R. Lasser, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Marvin, Martin E. and Joan Messinger, Richard L. Yett and Sheri and Paul Siegel, 1986
Accession no.: 1986.1189.88

Bridal Veil, Yosemite
Carleton E. Watkins
1865–66 · Photograph
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00000339
El Capitan, Yosemite
Carleton E. Watkins
1865–66 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00000526
Section of the Grizzly Giant with Galen Clark, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite
Carleton E. Watkins
1865–66 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00000527
Vernal Fall, Yosemite
Carleton E. Watkins
1865–66, printed ca. 1875 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00000555

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.