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Photographs of Mendocino, California
Title
[Photographs of Mendocino, California].
Production
Mendocino, California, [1863]
Physical Description
14 photographs : albumen prints ; photographs 40 x 52 cm on mounts 49 x 59 cm
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Place of creation from captions.
Date of creation supplied by cataloger.
Stamp of Emery Escola on mount versos.
Photographs are numbered 384, 385, 386, 389, 391, 392, 393, 394, 396, 397, 398, 399, 409, and 410.
Captions in English.
Provenance
Formerly owned by William D. Vaughn and Emery Escola. Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 2021.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916), American photographer.
Summary
Arch-topped, mammoth-plate prints taken by Carleton E. Watkins of Mendocino, California, 1863. Photographs are of the city’s coastal buildings, the mills along the Big River (including the original Gang Mill and the Big River Mill of the Mendocino Lumber Company), and landscape views looking out onto the Big River and Mendocino Bay.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 24, 2022
References
Carleton E. Watkins, Photographs of Mendocino, California. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Carleton E. Watkins, Photographs of Mendocino, California. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Albumen prints.
Mammoth plate.
Photographic prints.
Photographs.
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