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Watkins Unnumbered View - Rail Road Bridge, Cape Horn
Image courtesy of: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles   (Accession Number 84.XM.171.39)
Photographers number:Unnumbered
Title:Rail Road Bridge, Cape Horn
Inscription:Verso mount, inscribed in pencil at bottom right edge: Rail Road Bridge
Date Photographed: 1859-1860
Catalog:Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, cat. no. 21
Notes:CMP notes: Note man leading horse. Also, note two flaws in negative.

Photographer:Carleton E Watkins   (Nov 11, 1829 — Jun 23, 1916;  Active approx. 1853 — 1896)
Publisher:Carleton Watkins
Format:Mammoth Plate
Medium:Salt
Image Size:12 11⁄16  x  16   in.  (32.2 x 40.6 cm)  —  Horizontal, Dome Top
Mount Size:19 3⁄8  x  23 1⁄2  in.  (49.2 x 59.7 cm)
Provenance to 1900:Trenor Park 1863/Park-McCullough House  (source: 1984/JPGM notes)

View this image in gallery:Las Mariposas Mining Estate, Mariposa County
Link to image source:http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/55458/carleton-watkins-rail-road-bridge-railroad-bridge-cape-horn-american-1860/
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