The Grisly Giant, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite, 1861, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: 52.3 x 40.7; Mount: 61.4 x 54.1, Photographs, Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916), When he was twenty-one Carleton Watkins left Oneonta, New York, for California, following the example of Collis P. Huntington, another Oneonta native who had moved to California to make his fortune. After a stint in Huntington's store in Sacramento, Watkins moved to San Francisco where he chanced into an apprenticeship with Robert Vance, the famous daguerreotypist
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Grisly Giant, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite, 1861, Albumen silver print, glass negative, Image, 52.3 x 40.7, Mount, 61.4 54.1, Photographs, Carleton E. Watkins, American, 1829–1916, twenty, Watkins left, Oneonta, New York, California, following, example, Collis P, Huntington, another Oneonta, native, moved, fortune, stint, store, Sacramento, Watkins moved, San Francisco, chanced, apprenticeship, Robert Vance, famous daguerreotypist
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