Carleton E. Watkins photograph collection

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Title: Carleton E. Watkins photograph collection
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date: 1859-1881
Identifier or Call Number: PC-RM-Watkins
Scope and contents: Mammoth plate photographs of San Francisco, Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove, taken by Carleton Watkins and printed between 1859 and 1881. Contains images of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, a San Francisco panorama, El Capitan, Cathedral Rock, Yosemite Fall, Nevada Fall, and other features of the Yosemite area. Includes a portrait of Galen Clark standing in front of the Grizzly Giant in Mariposa Grove.
General note(s): Source of titles and negative numbers: Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs, by Weston Naef, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011.
Finding Aid: http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8057k72/

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Title: The City, View from the Residence of Bishop Kip, Rincon H...
Description: Photographs do not include original titles. Titles supplied by archivist, using "Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photo...

Title: El Capitan, Yosemite [CEW 25]
Description: Folder contains two copies of this image. One copy has a dome-top, original title and number #13 in lower right hand corner....

Title: The Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite [CEW 112]
Description: Has original title and number #1 in lower right hand corner. Signed by artist.

Title: Nevada Fall, Yosemite [CEW 90]
Description: Has original title and number #7 in lower right hand corner. Signed by artist.

Title: Pacific Mail Steamship Company Dock, Coal Yard, Marine Ho...
Description: Photographs do not include original titles. Titles supplied by archivist, using "Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photo...
"FN-28421" and "42863" written on back.

Title: Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Wharf and Warehouses, fro...
Description: Photographs do not include original titles. Titles supplied by archivist, using "Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photo...
"42859" and "FN-28422" written on back.

Title: Pacific Mail Steamship Company Wharf, San Francisco [CEW ...
Description: Photographs do not include original titles. Titles supplied by archivist, using "Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photo...

Title: Pacific Mail Steamship Company Wharf, the Steamship "Chin...
Description: Photographs do not include original titles. Titles supplied by archivist, using "Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photo...

Title: Pacific Mail Steamship Company Wharf, Unloading Coal, San...
Description: Photographs do not include original titles. Titles supplied by archivist, using "Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photo...
"42861" and "(OV) FN-22976" written on back.

Title: Pacific Mail Steamship Company Wharf with Derrick and Coa...
Description: Photographs do not include original titles. Titles supplied by archivist, using "Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photo...
"42861" written on back.

Title: River View, Cathedral Rock, Yosemite [CEW 31]
Description: Has original title and number #16 in lower right hand corner. Signed by artist.

Title: Section of the Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite [C...
Description: Has original title and number #2 in lower right hand corner. Signed by artist.

Title: View toward Goat Island, San Francisco (C)
Description: Photographs do not include original titles. Titles supplied by archivist, using "Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photo...
Part three of five-part Panorama of San Francisco

Title: View toward Mission Bay (E)
Description: Photographs do not include original titles. Titles supplied by archivist, using "Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photo...
Part five of five-part Panorama of San Francisco

Title: View toward Rincon Point, San Francisco (D)
Description: Photographs do not include original titles. Titles supplied by archivist, using "Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photo...
Part four of five-part Panorama of San Francisco

Title: View Toward Russian Hill, North Beach, and Alcatraz Islan...
Description: Photographs do not include original titles. Titles supplied by archivist, using "Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photo...
Part one of five-part Panorama of San Francisco

Title: View toward Telegraph Hill, San Francisco (B)
Description: Photographs do not include original titles. Titles supplied by archivist, using "Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photo...
Part two of five-part Panorama of San Francisco

Title: Yosemite Falls from the Upper House [CEW 53]
Description: Folder contains two copies of this image. One copy has a dome-top, original title and number #19 in lower right hand corner. ...