Yosemite National Park:

Click here to start a tour of the Yosemite National Park from stereo photography taken by Carleton E. Watkins beginning in the 1860s. Click here to see a thumbnail gallery.

Click here to see tours of other national parks.

Click on the map or click on "next image" to see a series of park images.

This website contains images produced from stereo photo pairs that were manipulated into anaglyphs (3-D images). You will need red-and-cyan stereo viewing glasses to get the 3-D visual effects.

Click here to see the same images in standard photography (with thumbnail galley) .

Most of the pictures on this website were taken in the vicinity of Yosemite Valley. for a map of the features and trails in the park, click here.

Click here to learn more about Yosemite National Park (National Park Service website: http://www.nps.gov/yose).

All the original Carleton E. Watkins photography is available in various scanned image formats on the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html. (Thank you, LC!)

Learn more about the photography from the NPS website:
Yosemite History: Carleton E. Watkins, photographer
http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/watkins/

N. King Huber, 1987, The Geologic Story of Yosemite Valley: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1595, 64 p.
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/b/b1595.

Calkins, Frank C., 1985, Bedrock geologic map of Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Investigations Map (map and 7 page pamphlet): http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/i/i1639.

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