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Contributor: Roger Genser - The Prints & The Pauper

#4751 - Santa Monica Hotel, Cal.

Added November 24, 2023

Contributor: Robert Bothamley

Unnumbered - View Album Taber

Unnumbered - View Album - Taber inside c ...

Unnumbered - View Album - Taber inside c ...

Unnumbered - Untitled

Unnumbered - Instantaneous surf effect a ...

Unnumbered - Untitled

Unnumbered - Logging Scene near Guernevi ...

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#B 589 - The Golden Gate from Telegraph ...

#B 844 - View of San Francisco Bay and A ...

#B 587 - San Francisco Bay.

#B 70 - Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Cal ...

#B 26 - Upper Corridor, Palace Hotel, S. ...

#B 25 - Court, Palace Hotel, S. F., Cal.

#B 524 - Market Street from Third Street ...

#B 525 - Market Street from Second Stree ...

#B 199 - Observatory, Golden Gate Park, ...

#B 549 - Instantaneous View, Beach of Cl ...

#B 463 - The Cliff House, San Francisco, ...

#B 206 - Panorama of San Francisco.

#B 33 - House of Records, S. F., Cal.

#B 31 - Montgomery Street, S. F., Cal.

#B 34 - California Street, S. F., Cal.

#B 531 - California Street from Montgome ...

#B 99 - Mrs. Mark Hopkins and Gov. Stanf ...

#B 13 - Woodwards Gardens, San Francisco ...

#B 512 - Mission Dolores, San Francisco. ...

#B 17 - Kearny Street, San Francisco, Ca ...

#B 54 - U. S. Mint, San Francisco, Cal.

#B 423 - C. P. R. R. Depot, Oakland, Cal ...

#B 195 - Ferry-boat Solano, on the Sacra ...

#B 51 - Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, Cal.

#B 52 - Club House, Hotel del Monte, Mon ...

#B 270 - Monterey Bay, from Hillside.

#B 250 - Main Street, Monterey, Cal.

#B 308 - Old Adobe Building at Monterey, ...

#B 309 - Old Pacific Hotel (Adobe), Mont ...

#B 273 - Moss Grove, Cypress Drive.

#B 264 - Cypress Point.

#B 303 - Carmel Mission, Established 177 ...

#B 1136 - Korbells Ranch, S. F. & N. P. ...

#B 1100 - Sonoma.

#B 1133 - Untitled

#B 1132 - Untitled

#B 1055 - General View of the Yosemite V ...

#B 1003 - View from Glacier Point.

#B 733 - Washington Column and Mirror La ...

#B 1060 - Bridal Veil Falls, 900 feet.

#B 1051 - Cathedral Spires, 2660 feet.

#B 366 - Yosemite Falls.

#B 387 - Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley.

#B 1042 - Nevada Fall.

#B 1018 - Half Dome, from Merced River.

#B 111 - El Capitan, 3,300 feet, Yosemit ...

#B 788 - Agassiz Column.

#B 815 - El Capitan, Reflected, 3,300 fe ...

#B 831 - Grizzly Giant, 33 feet diameter ...

#B 828 - Grizzly Giant, 33 feet diam.

#B 777 - Sequoia Group, 270 feet high, M ...

#B 129 - Wawona, 27 feet diameter.

#B 952 - Prof Gray and Doet

#B 954 - Untitled

#B 983 - The Sentinels and Pavilion.

#69 - Sentinel Rock and Sentinel Falls

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Contributor: Phil Nathanson

#14 - Between the Yosemite Falls

#15 - Vernal Fall

#17 - The Mill, Big River, Mendocino.

#20 - Vernal Fall 300 ft

#26 - Bridal Veil Fall 900 ft

#32 - Sweat House, Rancherie, Big River

#37 - Half Dome

#42 - Untitled

#44 - El Capitan, 3600 ft, Yo Semite

#44 - Am. River and Canyon from Cape Hor ...

#53 - Washington Column 2082 ft

#53 - Washington Column, 2082 feet, Yose ...

#61 - Up the Valley

#62 - Embankment below Dutch Flat, Place ...

#63 - Dutch Flat, Placer County. 67 mile ...

#67 - Foot of the Vernal Fall

#85 - Fort Point Cut. 70 feet deep, 600 ...

#109 - Summit Valley, Altitude 6,960 fee ...

#114 - Scene at Lake Angela. Altitude 7, ...

#123 - Lakeview Bluff, 350 feet high, fr ...

#127 - At the Hacienda, New Almaden.

#130 - View on Donner Lake, Altitude 5,9 ...

#147 - Rural View

#154 - Gaudelupe and Robert

#173 - San Jose (No. 5)

#191 - Summit Valley, from Emigrant Moun ...

#200 - Bluff and Snow Bank in Donner Pas ...

#201 - Melting of a Snow Bank, Scene on ...

#211 - West Postal Tunnel No. 1, Grizzly ...

#222 - At the Rancheria

#232 - Indian Sweat House

#233 - Coast View, Mendocino

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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

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Contributor: Roger Genser - The Prints & The Pauper

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Contributor: Robert Bothamley

Added November 4, 2023

Contributor: Phil Nathanson