That Wikipedia page is interesting reading.
>
>The subject line is from the June 2016 issue of Smithsonian magazine
>which has a short article about photographer Carleton Watkins. Maybe
>the greatest photographer you've probably never heard of. Watkins first
>photographed Yosemite in the summer of 1861 using 18x22" glass plates.
>His photographs were supposedly instrumental in Lincoln signing a bill
>in 1864 that protected the Yosemite Valley as "inviolable", well before
>the formation of the National Park System.
>
>You can find an extensive article about him on Wiki here:
><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carleton_Watkins>
>It's not a particularly happy story as Watkins lost much of his work to
>his creditor and to free-loaders who copied his work. At the time
>photographs in the US were not protected by copyright law.
>
>Ultimately he lost most of his work when his studio on Market Street was
>destroyed by the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906.
>
>A tidbit you won't find in the Wiki article is that Ansel Adams also
>went through the San Francisco quake... at age 4. He was thrown against
>a wall which gave him his permanently crooked nose.
>
Chris
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