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Watkins, Carleton E. Photographs of California scenes : a mammoth plate miscellany /
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Title:
Photographs of California scenes: a mammoth plate miscellanyCreator/Contributor:
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916, creatorAbstract:
Chiefly Yosemite views. Also includes San Francisco and vicinity and several California missions.
Date:
ca. 1861-ca. 1880? (issued)Subject:
n-us-caCalifornia -- Pictorial works
Yosemite Valley (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
Yosemite, Vallée de (Calif.) -- Ouvrages illustrés
California
California -- San Francisco
California -- Yosemite Valley
Unknown place
Note:
by Carleton E. Watkins.
Includes 2 or more photographs attributed to Charles L. Weed: "The Fallen tree Hercules" and "The Sentinals ... Calaveras
Grove."
Box 3 (labelled "Volume 3") contains 5 modern copy prints (numbered 12-16) for which originals are not held by the library.
"Volume" designations refer to boxes. It is not apparent whether any of these boxed items were ever bound in volumes. Each
volume cataloged separately.
RESTRICTED ORIGINALS. USE VIEWING PRINTS ONLY: Shelved as BANC PIC 19xx.198--PIC : Requests for use of original must be approved
by the appropriate curator.
Finding aid available.
Type:
graphicPictorial works.
Albumen prints.
Mammoth plates.
Physical Description:
photoprint
98 mounted photographic prints (in 7 boxes) : albumen ; 46 x 54 cm.- 51 x 60 cm.
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
RESTRICTED ORIGINALS. USE VIEWING PRINTS ONLY: Shelved as BANC PIC 19xx.198--PIC : Requests for use of original must be approved
by the appropriate curator.