Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Carleton Watkins Mammoth Albumen Photographs of Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Gray Herbarium Library, Harvard University

Collection Identifier: gra00091

Scope and content: The collection is made up of twenty two mammoth plate albumen photographs consisting of tree portraits and landscape views in Yosemite and Mariposa Valley, California. They were taken during Carleton Watkins’s time spent on the California State Geological Survey, and span the years 1861-1885.Watkins assigned numbers to almost all of his negatives, most likely for inventory in his studio, which Isaiah Taber took over in 1875. Watkins’s work up until about 1874 is known as the “Old...

Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove photographs by C.E. Watkins

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Arnold Arboretum Library (Cambridge), Harvard University

Collection Identifier: arn00026

Scope and Contents:

The collection is made up of twenty one mammoth plate albumen photographs with separated binding consisting of landscape views in Yosemite and Mariposa Valley, California. They were taken by Carleton E. Watkins probably between 1860-1875, and most likely bound together around 1875.