2637 Ft. Yosemite Fall, Front View

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Artist: Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916)
Date: 1861
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 40.9 x 51.3 cm (16 1/8 x 20 3/16 in.), arch-topped Mount: 53.6 x 67 cm (21 1/8 x 26 3/8 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005
Accession no.: 2005.100.1183

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Bridal Veil, Yosemite
Carleton E. Watkins
1865–66 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00000339
El Capitan, Yosemite
Carleton E. Watkins
1865–66 · Photograph
Museum 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
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00000527
Vernal Fall, Yosemite
Carleton E. Watkins
1865–66, printed ca. 1875 · Photograph
Museum 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.