![]() ![]() Watkins’s photographs throughout the Sierra Nevada helped to establish a park in the Yosemite Valley in 1864 when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant, thereby placing this wilderness area in the care of the State of California. Today’s modern conservation movement was largely born out of these daring, often death-defying photographs made deep in the mountains and valleys of America. While the Survey initially aimed to earmark locations with valuable natural resources that could support future industry, the photographs they produced captivated both politicians and citizens, who were awestruck by the beauty of the Western landscape captured by Carleton Watkins, William Henry Jackson, and others. Geological Survey teams who photographed unpopulated swaths of the North American landscape in the 1860s and 1870s. ![]() ![]() WATKINS, “EL CAPITAN, 3600 FT., YOSEMITE VALLEY”.Īdams’s deep-seated love of Yosemite expanded into his life-long advocacy of the National Park System, the concept for which developed out of the U.S. Images from left to right: ANSEL ADAMS, “LOST VALLEY, YOSEMITE”. ![]()
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