Weed, Charles Leander (1824-1903), photographer. Big Tree in Mariposa Grove, 94 Feet in Circumference. New York: E. Anthony., n.d. [after 1860].

171 x 83 mm stereoview on cardstock. Printed title label and imprint mounted on verso. Minor marginal soiling.

LIKELY THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF A TOURIST IN YOSEMITE.

Charles Leander Weed was born in New York and moved to Sacramento, California during the Gold Rush in 1854. There, Weed found work as a camera operator in the studio of George Watson. Due to Weed's modification of the wet collodion technique he found himself in high demand, with his photographs of miners being particularly popular, and was contracted by James Hutchings to photograph the Yosemite Valley.

During this trip Weed twenty large plate studio negatives and forty stereo negatives. While executing the latter Weed requested that Hutchings stand beside a tree for scale, making Hutchings the first human being ever photographed in Yosemite.

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Weed, Charles Leander (1824-1903), photographer. Big Tree in Mariposa Grove, 94 Feet in Circumference. New York: E. Anthony., n.d. [after 1860].

Printed Books & Early American Photography, including Selections from the Larry Ness Collection

Weed, Charles Leander (1824-1903), photographer. Big Tree in Mariposa Grove, 94 Feet in Circumference. New York: E. Anthony., n.d. [after 1860].

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