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Added January 19, 2015

Contributor: Bill Lee

#1071 - Yosemite Falls, 2630 feet, Yosem ...

#1117 - Cathedral Rocks, 2600 feet, Yose ...

Contributor: Mead B. Kibbey

#7 - Embankment in Dutch Ravine, above N ...

#8 - Approaching Bloomer Cut, from the W ...

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#1491 - Wheeler & Wilson. - W. M. Stodda ...

#1540 - Mt. Shasta, view from the east s ...

Contributor: Paul Rubinstein - YNP Collector Stereoviews

#61 - Hydraulic Mining at Gold Run. Plac ...

Added January 18, 2015

Contributor: John Waldsmith

Unnumbered - Petrified Forest

Added January 15, 2015

Contributor: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Unnumbered - Untitled

Unnumbered - Jewish Synagogue

Unnumbered - Winter Scene. Salt Lake

Unnumbered - Untitled

Contributor: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Gift of Weston and Mary Naef

Unnumbered - Untitled

Added January 3, 2015

Contributor: Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Contributor: California State Library

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Unnumbered - Ladders at Vernal Fall

Contributor: George Eastman House

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Unnumbered - Alcatraz Island

Contributor: Jim Crain

#2009 - Sugar Loaf Islands, Farallone Is ...

#2056 - Sea Lions, West End, Farallone I ...

#2104 - Residence of W.C. Ralston, Belmo ...

Contributor: Len Walle

Unnumbered - Mining in Boise

Contributor: Online Archive of California

Unnumbered - Untitled

Contributor: The Society of California Pioneers

Unnumbered - Untitled

#1345 - Panorama of San Francisco from T ...

Added January 1, 2015

Contributor: California State Library

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#2150 - Views at Suburban Residences in ...

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#2159 - Views at Suburban Residences in ...

Added December 3, 2014

Contributor: Miguel A. Mata

#1 - Locomotive "Gov. Stanford"

#177 - Crystal Lake and Railroad, from B ...

#257 - Tunnel No. 12, Strong's Canyon

#1022 - Tacoye, or the North Dome, from ...

#1328 - Cape Horn, near Celilo, Columbia ...

Added November 28, 2014

Contributor: The Dave Bernhisel Collection

#233 - Coast View, Mendocino County, Cal ...

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#263 - Dwarf Pine, Mendocino, Mendocino ...

#272 - Coast View, Mendocino, Mendocino ...

Contributor: EstatesUnlimitedInc

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#2196 - Dancing Nymphs.

Added November 22, 2014

Contributor: Phil Nathanson

#30 - Cascade Nevada Fall

#111 - Marking the Flasks

#169 - San Jose (No.1)

#170 - San Jose (No. 2)

#174 - Untitled

#218 - Coast View

Added October 26, 2014

Contributor: John Saddy - Jefferson Stereoptics

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#2048 - At the Cliff House, Seal Rocks, ...

Added September 10, 2014

Contributor: Ed Herny

Unnumbered - View from cor, Cal & Taylor ...

#85 - In Camp

#205 - Untitled

#250 - Big River Mill

#279 - Albion Mill

Added August 3, 2014

Contributor: Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographica

#1274 - Islands in the Columbia, from th ...

Added June 7, 2014

Contributor: Kyle Schuelein

#250 - Upper Cascade. 98 miles from Sacr ...

#1611 - View from the works at Fort Poin ...

#2091 - C. C. Hastings, Lick House.

#2154 - Views at Suburban Residences in ...

#2358 - Piute Chief.

Contributor: Lawrence T Jones III

Unnumbered - Indian Rancheria

#523 - View from Rincon Hill, West

#766 - View from Russian Hill

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Featured Watkins Photographs

1850 to 1860

Watkins learned and mastered photography during the 1850s. His earliest photographs were not published under his name and many are still to be identified.

Stereographs

Photographed 1860

Mammoth Prints

1861 to 1874

Watkins was widely recognized for his photographs during this time, receiving a medal from the Paris International Exposition in 1867. He made some of the earliest photographs of California and Oregon. His Mammoth prints of Yosemite were influentual in creation of the park.

Stereographs

Yosemite (c1861)

Photographed c1861

New Almaden & San Jose

Photographed c1863

Mendocino

Photographed c1863

San Francisco & Environs (1860-64)

Photographed c1860-1864

San Francisco & Environs (1864-66)

Photographed c1864-1866

Yosemite & misc California

Photographed c1865-1866

Spring Valley Water Works

Photographed c1866-1868

San Francisco (c1868)

Photographed c1860-1866

Yosemite

Photographed c1865-1866

Columbia River & vicinity

Photographed 1867

San Francisco & CPRR

Photographed c1867

Mt Shasta & Northern California

Photographed 1867

San Francisco (c1872)

Photographed c1870

Sierra Nevada Mining

Photographed c1871

Vallejo & San Francisco

Photographed c1871

Farallone Islands

Photographed c1870-1873

San Francisco & Environs (c1872)

Photographed c1870-1873

Napa and Sonoma Geysers

Photographed c1870-1873

Stereographs

San Francisco and Environs

Photographed c1870-1873

Modoc War

Photographed c1873

Marin County and San Mateo

Photographed c1873

Utah

Photographed c1873

Watkins Pacific Railroad

Sierra Nevada Foothils

Photographed 1864-1869

High Sierra & Sacramento

Photographed 1864-1869

Sierra Summit & Reno

Photographed 1864-1869

Nevada desert & Last Rail

Photographed 1868-1869

Mammoth Prints

Yosemite Valley

Photographed c1861-1870

The Topographical Landscape

Photographed c1867-1870

1875 to 1890

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" covered more than ten years of his photographic efforts including stereographs beginning with number 3001.

Stereographs

Yosemite - 1878-1881

Photographed c1878-1881

Oakland and Misc Railroad

Photographed c1876