Photographs of California from the United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel [graphic].

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Engineer Department, 1870.

7 photographic prints : b & w ; 20.5 x 31.0 cm. on mounts 46.0 x 61.0 cm.

Letterpress captions on mounts: U. S. Engineer Department, Geological Exploration, Fortieth Parallel, C. E. Watkins, Photographer. Numbers and titles supplied in brackets on mount versos.

Photographs are arranged in numerical order with numbers assigned to the photographs according to both their chronological and their geographical locations within the expedition.

Carleton E. Watkins was a San Francisco photographer who worked both with official surveys and independently to photograph California, Nevada and Utah. In 1867 he served with Clarence King as the official photographer to the California Geological Survey, and in 1870 was the official photographer for King's Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel.

Photographs in California of Mount Shasta, Mount Lassen, and the Whitney Glacier.

English

June 01, 2002

Photographic prints.