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Image courtesy of: Online Archive of California   (Accession Number 1905.17175:80)
Photographers number:621
Title:Weapons of the Argonauts
Inscription:Recto mount on pasted paper label, centered below image: Weapons of the Argonauts / No. 621. Watkins’ New Series, San Francisco
Date Photographed: 1866-1872
Catalog:Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, cat. no. 68

Photographer:Carleton E Watkins   (Nov 11, 1829 — Jun 23, 1916;  Active approx. 1853 — 1896)
Publisher:Carleton Watkins
Format:Mammoth Plate
Medium:Albumen
Image Size:15 1⁄16  x  21 1⁄16  in.  (38.3 x 53.5 cm)  —  Horizontal, Rectangle
Mount Size:22  x  28   in.  (55.9 x 71.1 cm)
Provenance to 1900:Phoebe A. Hearst  (source: 1909/BL Hearst files)

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