First visits Yosemite via bicycle from Palo Alto
1896 - Invents circuit panoramic camera, as senior project at Stanford.
1897 - Leaves for Alaska to chronicle Gold Rush
Shipwrecked and rescues himself.
Trip from the headwaters of Yukon River to sea in a canoe.
1903 - Begins work as photographer in San Francisco
1906 - Photographs Earthquake, distributes world-wide.
Buys a studio in Yosemite.
Photographs the Missions of California and sites of interest through out the state.
1910 - Aerial photographs of rebuilding, runaway balloon.
Balloon breaks free. He is reported dead.
Films first nature movie, shows it at The Studio of the Three Arrows in Yosemite.
1911 - Begins work on lapse-time studies on flowers
1912 – Builds and films the first lapse-time movie of a flower blooming.
Stops the cutting of the wildflowers in the meadows of Yosemite by persuasion.
