On his first trip to the Sierra Nevada, in June of 1916, Ansel ... of Adams admirers emerged from the trees on horseback, making a cloud of dust as they came into view of Thousand Island Lake ...

Ansel Adams took his first long trip into the wilderness in 1920, when he was just eighteen. His burro, Mistletoe, carried almost a hundred pounds of gear and food; he himself carried a thirty ...

A new method of photography is invented in France by Louise Jacques Mande Daguerre. The French government purchases the rights to the invention and makes it available to the public. Within months ...