This collection features images taken in 1863 of lumbering activities along the Mendocino County Coast, north of San Francisco.

Carleton E. Watkins was born in Oneonta, Oswego county, New York, on November 11, 1829. He was the youngest of five children of a Scottish innkeeper. During his youth he became acquainted with Collis P. Huntington, who frequented his father's hotel. Soon after the discovery of gold, both young men went to California, where Huntington later became one of the Big Four who built the Central Pacific Railroad.

53 mounted photographic prints (in 2 portfolios): albumen; 57 x 83 cm., top corners rounded 53 digital objects

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Original prints are restricted and may not be viewed unless permission is granted by the Curator of Pictorial Collections. Viewing prints are available under the call number: BANC PIC 1957.026--PIC.