The Scenic California collection contains 14 mounted albumen prints taken circa 1875-1885 by Carleton E. Watkins.

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.

14 photographs and 14 digital objects : albumen prints ; prints 18 x 22 cm, mounts 23 x 36 cm

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