Photographs of the Pacific Coast.

San Francisco, Calif. : Watkins, [1884].

31 photographic prints : albumen, b & w ; 12 x 20.8 cm.

Letterpress captions on mounts for all photographs but one, with numbers and titles, and the line: Watkins' New Boudoir Series, Yo Semite and Pacific Coast, 247 Montgomery Street, San Francisco at bottom.

Carleton Watkins' personal copy, given by him to his daughter Julia, and later from her to her caregiver. Purchased from the caregiver by Peter Palmquist. Purchased on the Frederick W. & Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana, 1999.

Carleton Watkins, photographer of the American West.

Thirty-one albumen photographs from Watkins' New Boudoir Series, Yo Semite and Pacific Coast, mounted in Watkins' personal copy of Bentley's Hand-book of the Pacific Coast, Oakland, Cal.: Pacific Press, 1884. Photographs depict Salt Lake City, Santa Cruz, Mt. Shasta, the Yosemite Valley, San Gabriel Valley, Calaveras Grove, Columbia River, Lake Tahoe, and Monterey, including views of the Hotel Del Monte.

English

June 01, 2002

Carleton E. Watkins, Photographs of the Pacific Coast. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Carleton E. Watkins, Photographs of the Pacific Coast. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.