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Finding Aid to the Selected Mammoth Plate Photographic Prints from the Keith McHenry Pond Collection, [1859-circa 1880]
BANC PIC 1952.021--ffALB
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Collection Title: Selected mammoth plate photographic prints from the Keith McHenry Pond collection
Date (inclusive): [1859-circa 1880]
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1952.021--ffALB
Creator:
Watkins, Carleton E.
Keith, William
Extent:
45 photographic prints : albumen.
15 digital objects
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: Mammoth plate California landscape views formerly belonging to artist William Keith. The majority of views are by photographer
Carleton E. Watkins.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Restricted originals. Use viewing prints or digital facsimiles only. Use of originals only by permission of the appropriate
curator. Inquiries concerning these materials should be directed, in writing, to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft
Library.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head
of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 94720-6000. Consent is given on behalf of The
Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright
owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
[Identification of item], Selected Mammoth Plate Photographic Prints from the Keith McHenry Pond Collection, BANC PIC 1952.021--ffALB,
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Digital images have been provided of images not found in other Bancroft Library collections.
Keith-McHenry-Pond family pictorial collection (BANC PIC 1952.002-.011)
Keith-McHenry-Pond family papers, 1841-1961 (BANC MSS C-B 595)
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7199n90j
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7199n90j
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog
California--Pictorial works
Oregon--Pictorial works
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Albumen prints
Landscapes (Representations)--California
Mammoth plates
Photographs.
Gift of E.K. Pond, as part of the Keith-McHenry-Pond collection.
Photographs may have once been part of the scrapbooks of artist William Keith.
No additions are expected.
Processed by Bancroft Library staff.
Scope and Content of Collection
Mammoth plate California landscape views formerly belonging to artist William Keith. The majority of views are by photographer
Carleton E. Watkins, an associate of Keith's, with several views by Thomas Houseworth also present. Yosemite scenes predominate.
All images were poorly drymounted at an unknown time in the 20th century, and image quality is faded and very poor. It is
possible that these photoprints were kept by Keith in his scrapbooks and were never mounted in Keith's lifetime, therefore
opening the possibility that the poor condition is not simply the result of bad mounting, but of decades of use in an unmounted
state. Their poor physical condition reduces research interest considerably, but the images remain an important document of
Keith's collecting of California landscape photography. Furthermore, some of the images are exceptionally rare and may not
exist in other research collections.
Note
Photographs are in very poor condition, on 20th century mounts.