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The Birth of the Nature Park Idea
Frederic Edwin Church, To the Memory of Cole, 1848. Private collection.Carleton Watkins, From the Foot of the Mariposa Trail, 1861. Collection of the New York Public Library.Carleton Watkins, Thomas Starr King’s Church [First Unitarian], San Francisco, 1863-64. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Carleton Watkins, Cathedral Spires, Yosemite, 1861. Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.Carleton Watkins, Outline View of Half Dome, Yosemite, 1861. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Carleton Watkins, The Lake [Mirror Lake], Yosemite, 1861. Collection of the Stanford University Libraries.Carleton Watkins, Cascade between Vernal Fall and Nevada Fall, Yosemite, 1861. Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Carleton Watkins, The Colfax Party, Yosemite, 1865. Collection of the Society of California Pioneers, San Francisco.Carleton Watkins, A Camping Party in Yosemite [The Colfax Party], 1865, Collection of the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Calif.
Thomas Crawford, Statue of Freedom, 1857-62. Collection of the Architect of the Capitol, Washington.Emanuel Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, 1861. Collection of the Architect of the Capitol, Washington.Albert Bierstadt, Valley of the Yosemite, 1864. Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.Albert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak, 1863. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Carleton Watkins, Mount Broderick and Nevada Fall, Yosemite, 1861. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Carleton Watkins, Mount Watkins, Fully Reflected in Mirror Lake, Yosemite, 1865-66. Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington.