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CARLETON E. WATKINS: "Often lauded as the most important American photographer
of the 19th century, Watkins prodigious photographic record of the American
West is unrivalled for the period. ... Some of the most famous and striking
views [are] of Yosemite, Mendocino, Lake Tahoe, the Farallones and San Francisco
... There are only two known surviving photographs of Watkins: a distant shot
of himself posing as a miner ["Primitive Mining, The Old Rocker" No.
3542] which he made for his children, and a late 1906 street scene following
the San Francisco earthquake, neither of which are particularly helpful in
identifying his facial features. However, a surviving Mezzars cameo portrait
of Watkins in the Yosemite Park Museum collections, circa 1868-9, features
Watkins in profile ... None of Watkins' negatives survived the 1906 Earthquake,
but most of his photographs can be identified by the many reprints he issued
for commercial purposes, as large format albumen prints and stereoviews. ...
Watkins alone possessed the Hart negatives that he inherited in 1869 after
Judge Crocker's heart attack allowed Collis Huntington to tranfer the CPRR-owned
negatives from Hart to Watkins' studio. For several years, Watkins had been
consistently reissuing Hart's images as stereoviews under his own imprint ...
in 1880 ... Watkins had recently married Frances Sneed Watkins, a 22 year-old
who was managing his Montgomery Street office while he was on the road. ...
Watkins is recorded to have made [an] album of his "best cabinet views" for
his wife "Frankie," now housed at the Yosemite Museum (Palmquist
59). ... the only known photograph of Frances Sneed Watkins [is] in the Bancroft
Library (reproduced in Palmquist p. 54). ... Sally Dutcher, an employee of
his gallery and an avid outdoorswoman, the first to have ascended Half Dome.
Ms. Dutcher's family is recorded to have moved to Oakland in the 1880s ... " An
album produced by someone in Watkins' studio in 1880 possibly for Watkins'
wife consisting of
approximately
350
prints including almost 280 images by Hart and Watkins was auctioned in 2006
and, if the identification is correct, may
include the only formal self-portraits of Watkins to have survived.Description
by Bonhams and Butterfields.
[Dana
Scanlon
write that "I have it on very good authority that the album that sold in
Butterfields
yesterday was the property of Clement."]
Watkins 1861 - 1873 (#1 - #2999)
864. Excursion Train at Cape Horn C.P.R.R.
865. Cape Horn C.P.R.R., No. 1
1396.
Pacific Railroad Celebration, San Francisco. May 8, 1869.
Watkins Views of Pullman Cars:
1531. Pullman's Palace Train, Oakland
1532. Pullman's Palace Sleeping Car Palmyra
1533. Pullman's Palace Smoking Car
1534. Pullman's Sleeping Car Palmyra
1535. Pullman's Palace Sleeping Car Palmyra
1536. Pullman's Palace Commissary Car
1537. Pullman's Palace Commissary Car
1538. Pullman's Palace Hotel Car
2259. Steamer El Capitan, Oakland Wharf
2261. Goat Island, from Oakland Wharf
2263. At Oakland Wharf
2700 (or 2706). Pulpit Rock, Echo City, Utah
2754. The Devil's Gate, Weber Canyon, Utah
2755. The Toll Gather at the Devil's Gate, Weber Canyon, Utah, U.P.R.R.
2756. The Devil's Slide, Weber Cañon, Utah, U.P.R.R.
2757.
1000 Mile Tree, Weber Canyon, Utah
2758. Witches Rocks, (conglomerate), Near Echo, Utah. U.P.R.R.
2759.
Witches Rocks, (conglomerate), Near Echo, Utah. U.P.R.R.
2760. The Devil's War Club, (Witches Rocks), Utah. U.P.R.R.
2761.
View from Witch Rocks, Echo City, Utah [Watkins photo wagon]
2763. Witch Rocks, near Echo, Utah. U.P.R.R.
2764. Echo City, Utah
2766. Pulpit Rock, (view West), Echo, Utah. U.P.R.R.
2767. Sentinel Rock, Echo Canyon, Utah
2768. Rocks in Echo Canyon, (view East), Utah , U.P.R.R.
2769. Rocks in Echo Canyon, Utah, view West
Watkins' New Series (1873 - 1890, #3001 - #5299 and "E" series)
3314. Pullman Palace Car Marleborough.
3315. Pullman Palace Car Marleborough, interior view.
3316. Pullman Palace Car Marleborough, interior view.
3317.
Pullman Palace Car Marleborough.
3320. Yard Engine
3321. Jarrett and Palmer's Lightning Express.
3322.
Steamer Oakland leaving Oakland Wharf with Lightning Express.
3323.
Steamer Oakland leaving Oakland Wharf with Lightning Express.
3638. View from the Residence of Chas. Crocker, Esq., S.F. California St.
3639. View from the Residence of Chas. Crocker, Esq., S.F. California St.
3640. View from the Residence of Chas. Crocker, Esq., S.F. California St.
3641. View from the Residence of Chas. Crocker, Esq., S.F. California St.
3642. View from the Residence of Chas. Crocker, Esq., S.F. California St.
3643. View from the Residence of Chas. Crocker, Esq., S.F. California St.
3645 [Var.] View from the Grounds of Gov. Stanford, Cal. St., S.F.
3646 [Var.] View from the Grounds of Gov. Stanford, Cal. St., S.F.
3648 [Var.] View from the Grounds of Gov. Stanford, Cal. St., S.F.
3702. Residence of Gov. Stanford, Cal. St. Hill, San Francisco.
3703. Residence of Gov. Stanford, Cal. St. Hill, San Francisco.
3704. Residence of Mark Hopkins, Esq., California St., San Francisco.
3705. Residence of Chas. Crocker, Esq., California St., San Francisco.
3708. Residence of Chas. Crocker, Esq., California St., San Francisco.
3709. Residence of D.D. Colton, Esq., California St., San Francisco.
3713. Oakland Ferry Buildings, San Francisco.
3714. Interior Steamer "Oakland."
3715. Interior Steamer "Oakland."
3791. C.P. Ferry Boat Solano.
3792. C.P. Ferry Boat Solano.
3793. C.P. Ferry Boat Solano.
3794. C.P. Ferry Boat Solano.
3795. C.P. Ferry Boat Solano.
3796. Mt. Diablo from Port Costa
3797. C.P. Ferry Boat Solano in slip at Pt.
Costa waiting for train.
3798. C.P. Ferry Boat Solano.
3799. C.P. Ferry Boat Solano in her slip at Pt.
Costa.
3799. C.P. Ferry Boat Solano in her slip at Pt. Costa. The southern Pacific
passing.
3800. C.P. Ferry Boat Solano crossing Straits of Carquinez.
3800. C.P. Ferry
Boat "Solano" discharging at Pt. Costa slip.
Watkins' New Series views of the C.P.R.R. and Donner Pass:
4138.
Train at the Mound House, V. & T. R.. R..
4201. Cape Horn, C.P.R.R.
4202.
Cape Horn, C.P.R.R.
4203.
Cape Horn, C.P.R.R.
4204.
Cape Horn, C.P.R.R.
4205. Cape Horn, C.P.R.R.
4206. Filling in Secret Town Trestle, C.P.R.R.
4207.
Summit Valley Station, C.P.R.R.
4208.
Summit Valley Station, C.P.R.R.
4209.
Summit Valley Station and Castle Peak, C.P.R.R.
4210.
Summit Valley Station, C.P.R.R.
4211. Soda Springs near Summit Station, C.P.R.R.
4212.
Soda Springs near Summit Station, C.P.R.R.
4213.
Soda Springs near Summit Station, C.P.R.R.
4214.
Soda Springs near Summit Station, C.P.R.R.
4215. Soda Springs near Summit Station, C.P.R.R.
4216.
Soda Springs near Summit Station, C.P.R.R.
4231. Summit Station with snow sheds
4232. Lake Mary, Summit Station, C.P.R.R.
4233. Lake Angela, Summit, C.P.R.R.
4234. Lake Angela, Summit, C.P.R.R.
4235.
Lake Angela, Summit, C.P.R.R.
4236.
Lake Angela, Summit, C.P.R.R.
4237.
Donner Lake, C.P.R.R.
4238.
Donner Lake, C.P.R.R.
4239.
Donner Lake, C.P.R.R.
4240. Donner Lake, C.P.R.R.
4241.
Donner Lake, C.P.R.R.
4242.
Donner Lake, C.P.R.R.
4701. The Devil's Gate, Weber Canon, Utah.
4702. The Devil's Slide, Weber Canon,
Utah.
4703. The Devil's Slide, Weber Canon, Utah.
4704. 1000 Mile Tree, Weber Canon, Utah.
4705. Echo City from Witch Rocks, Utah.
4706. Devil's War Club, Witch Rocks, Utah.
4709. Pulpit Rock, Echo City, Utah.
4710. Sentinel Rock, Echo Canon, Utah.
4711. Profile Rock, Echo Canon, Utah.
4712. View in Echo Canon, Utah.
Links
to images at the "Stereoviews of Carleton
Watkins"
Links
to the "Online Archive of California"
[not affiliated with CPRR.org]
[Last updated 10/10/2006.]
List of C.P.R.R. and U.P.R.R. C.E. Watkins Stereographs:
Courtesy Stereoviews
of Carleton Watkins.
Modified based on donor stereoview
collections.
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic
History Museum
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