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[Section Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove]
Carleton Watkins1861
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Galen Clark, the figure in this photograph, was designated as the guardian of the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoia about the time Abraham Lincoln ceded it to California in 1864. When this picture was made, Clark lived in a cabin (not pictured) nearby and maintained a rustic way station for visitors traveling to Yosemite Valley via the Mariposa Trail, which was developed in 1859.
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- Title: [Section Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove]
- Creator: Carleton Watkins
- Date Created: 1861
- Physical Dimensions: 43.2 × 52.1 cm (17 × 20 1/2 in.)
- Type: Print
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Albumen silver print
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 84.XM.493.17
- Culture: American
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: Carleton Watkins (American, 1829 - 1916)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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