Glass stereographs of Frémont's Mariposa estate include exterior (and some interior) views of the Josephine, Mount Ophir, Oso, and Princeton mines; the Agua Fria, Bear Valley, Benton, and Oso mills; Guadelupe Valley, Mormon Bar, Stockton Creek, and T...
Description:
The first major series of outdoor photographs by Carleton Watkins, western photographer. Col. John C. Frémont hired Watkins to produce a series of photographs depicting Frémont's Mariposa estate and its assets. Frémont's mining estate, Las Mariposa...
Subject (Geographic):
California, Mariposa County, Mariposa County (Calif.), and Mariposa Estate (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Frémont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902 and Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890.
Glass stereographs of Frémont's Mariposa estate include exterior (and some interior) views of the Josephine, Mount Ophir, Oso, and Princeton mines; the Agua Fria, Bear Valley, Benton, and Oso mills; Guadelupe Valley, Mormon Bar, Stockton Creek, and T...
Description:
The first major series of outdoor photographs by Carleton Watkins, western photographer. Col. John C. Frémont hired Watkins to produce a series of photographs depicting Frémont's Mariposa estate and its assets. Frémont's mining estate, Las Mariposa...
Subject (Geographic):
California, Mariposa County, Mariposa County (Calif.), and Mariposa Estate (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Frémont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902 and Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890.
Mammoth-plate photographs of California, including views in Yosemite of Half Dome, North Dome, the Royal Arches, Washington Column, Cathedral Rock, the Cathedral Spires, Mount Broderick, Mount Starr King, Nevada Fall, the Bridal Veil, the Yosemite Fal...
Description:
Carleton E. Watkins was a San Francisco photographer who worked both with official surveys and independently to photograph California, Nevada and Utah. In 1867 he served with Clarence King as the official photographer to the California Geological Sur...
Subject (Geographic):
California, Yosemite Valley (Calif.), and San Francisco (Calif.)
Mammoth-plate photographs of Gold Hill and Virginia City in the Comstock region of Nevada, showing the Consolidated Virginia Battery Mill and Hoisting Works in Virginia City, the Ophir hoisting works, and a view of town of Gold Hill from the Wheeler m...
Description:
Manuscript captions and numbers on verso.
Subject (Geographic):
Nevada, Gold Hill (Nev.), and Virginia City (Nev.)
Three photographs forming a panoramic view of Portland, with houses in clearings in foreground, Willamette River in middle distance and Mount Hood and Mount St. Helens in background
Description:
Carleton E. Watkins, photographer of the American West, travelled to Oregon in 1867 to take photographs along the Columbia and Willamette Rivers.
Subject (Geographic):
Portland (Or.), Hood, Mount (Or.), and Saint Helens, Mount (Wash.)
Photographs in California of Mount Shasta, Mount Lassen, and the Whitney Glacier
Description:
Carleton E. Watkins was a San Francisco photographer who worked both with official surveys and independently to photograph California, Nevada and Utah. In 1867 he served with Clarence King as the official photographer to the California Geological Sur...
Publisher:
U.S. Engineer Department
Subject (Geographic):
United States and California
Subject (Name):
United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel
Photographs of California, Oregon, and Arizona, including views in San Francisco of the Palace Hotel, the residence of Mrs. Mark Hopkins, Golden Gate Park, Cliff House, Sutro Heights, the Seal Rocks, and the New City Hall, and views of Lake Tahoe, San...
Description:
Accompanied by a box list.
Publisher:
Watkins
Subject (Geographic):
Yosemite National Park (Calif.), San Francisco (Calif.), California, and Columbia River