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Unnumbered - Tahoe City from the Lake

Unnumbered - At the Hotel Del Monte, Mon ...

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Unnumbered - Fourteenth Industrial Exhib ...

Unnumbered - View of San Francisco Bay, ...

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Unnumbered - Cathedral Spires, 2200 Ft., ...

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Unnumbered - The Baldwin, S.F.

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#B 177 - The Loop, S.P.R.R., California.

#B 127 - Clay St. Cable R.R. S.F.

Added September 27, 2020

Contributor: California State Library

Unnumbered - Robert Cravens

Unnumbered - Theodore Dehone Judah

Unnumbered - Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz

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Picture Categories

Featured Watkins Photographs

Mammoth Plate Photographs

Becoming a Professional Photographer

Yosemite Valley and Related Pictures

San Francisco and the Pacific Coast

South, East, and North of San Francisco

The Californa Missions Project

Picturing the Topographical Landscape

Railroads and Agriculture

Mining

Other Subjects

Watkins used a specially constructed camera to expose 18 x 22 inch glass plates. He created over 1200 mammoth plate photographs during his career. Watkins photographs of Yosemite were very influentual in creation of the park.

Stereographs 1859-1874 (Watkins Old Series and Watkins Pacific Railroad)

Stereographs

Stereographs

Watkins Pacific Railroad

Watkins was widely recognized for his photographs during this time, receiving a medal from the Paris International Exposition in 1867. This group of photographs are known as Watkins Old Series and are some of the earliest photographs of California and Oregon.

Stereographs 1875 to 1890 (Watkins New Series)

Stereographs

Stereographs

Unnumbered Series

Albumns

After the loss of his earlier negatives to a creditor during a financial crisis, Carleton Watkins started photographing anew in the mid-1870s. Watkins' "New Series" stereographs begin with series number 3001.

Photographs in other Formats

Albums

Studio Portraits

CdV, Cabinet Card, Boudoir Card, Imperial Mount and other Medium Format Prints

Watkins published prints in a variety of formats during his career including Albums, Cabinet Cards, and 8x10 prints.

Documents & Ephemera

Includes advertising, trade cards, personal correspondence, and other documents.

New Additions to CarletonWatkins.org

Added October 11, 2020

Contributor: Jim Crain

Added October 3, 2020

Contributor: California State Library

Added September 27, 2020

Contributor: California State Library

Added September 7, 2020

Contributor: The Huntington Library