Sunny Slope, San Gabriel, Cal.

Album containing 27 albumen prints; 10 3/4 x 10 x 1 1/2 in., prints are circular format (5" diameter).

Photographs of the L.J. Rose property, Sunny Slope, including the residence, vineyard, citrus groves, winery buildings, and surrounding landscape. Watkins made the photographs on two trips to Southern California, in 1877 and 1880. These photographs were made in other formats as well, including mammoth, stereograph, and cabinet views.

Watkins used a stereo camera with an oversized glass plate negative allowing him to make prints in multiple formats or different compositions from the same negative. Listed below are the album pages along with corresponding stereographs printed from the same negative. Stereographs 4429 and 4811 are particularly good examples of the compositional latitude Watkins had with each negative.