Early images of Yosemite and Yellowstone emerge in US sales
Running to 63 photographs, a virtually complete set of those produced for Carleton Watkins’ 1863 publication '…Photographic Views of the Falls and Valley of Yosemite' in Mariposa County, California featured in a January 27 sale at Nate D Sanders (25% buyer’s premium) of Los Angeles.
Initially drawn to California by the great gold rush of the time, Watkins instead turned to his ph…