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Ansel Easton Adams is born in San Francisco, CA on February 20, 1902.
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Becomes a consultant for the Polaroid Corporation.
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He receives his first camera, the Kodak Brownie Box camera.
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Ansel decides to become a pianist.
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First acknowledged photograph, Monolith, The Face of Halfdome
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He marries Virginia Best.
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Has an exhibition of 60 photographs at the Smithsonian Institution
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Opens his own gallery in San Francisco.
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His darkroom at Yosemite burns, destroying 20 percent of his negatives.
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Develops the Zone System for developing film.
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Ansel receives the John Muir Award.
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Appointed to President Johnson's environmental task force.
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Ansel receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Ansel Adams dies at the age of 82.
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Mount Ansel Adams is dedicated, at Lyell Fork in Yosemite, in his memory.