Celebrating the American West: 19th Century Mammoth Plate Photographs

The New York Times

March 31, 2006

Working the west in the early days of photography, lugging large-view cameras and heavy glass plates, lensmen still had a field day, depicting awesome locales with an exactitude no painter could hope to achieve.
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The New York Sun

February 16, 2006

An exhibit of 19th-century American mammoth plate photographs features the work of Carleton Watkins, William Henry Jackson, and Frank Jay Haynes.
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