Photographs in California of Mount Shasta, Mount Lassen, and the Whitney Glacier.
Description:
Accompanied by a box list., 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 Survey, and in 1870 was the official photographer for King's Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel., and Letterpress captions on mounts: U. S. Engineer Department, Geological Exploration, Fortieth Parallel, C. E. Watkins, Photographer. Numbers and titles supplied in brackets on mount versos.
Publisher:
U.S. Engineer Department,
Subject (Geographic):
California--Pictorial works., United States--Exploring expeditions--Pictorial works., and United States--Surveys--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
King, Clarence, 1842-1901., United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel (1867-1881), and United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel--(1867-1881)--Pictorial works.
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., Three photographs forming a panorama 39 x 151.9 cm. when joined., and Title devised by cataloger. Attribution to Watkins appears on back of photographs. Photographs dated from reference sources.
Subject (Geographic):
Hood, Mount (Or.)--Pictorial works., Portland (Or.)--Pictorial works., and Saint Helens, Mount (Wash.)
