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A sepia-toned, arched-top photograph from 1860 captures a wide, elevated view of a rugged, sparsely vegetated landscape in the Mariposa Estate. In the middle ground, a winding dirt road or trail snakes through a valley toward a small cluster of simple, light-colored wooden buildings and structures nestled against a hillside. The terrain is rocky and dotted with low-lying shrubs and thin trees, with steep, rolling hills rising in the background under a pale, clear sky. In the bottom left corner of the frame, a vertical Kodak Gray Scale and a color calibration strip have been placed next to the original print for archival reference. A small, handwritten label that reads "Bancroft Library" is visible at the very top center of the image mount.

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Title
Lower Agua Frio
Full Collection Name
Photographs of the Mariposa Estate and Environs Taken by Carleton E. Watkins, 1860
Other Identifiers
BANC PIC 19xx.194:02--ffALB
Type
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Archive
The Bancroft Library
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Image description generated by AI (Gemini 3.0 Fast) and reviewed, February 2026 .

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