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Picture Categories
Tours

Featured Watkins Photographs
Tour of selected stereographs by Carleton Watkins
Mammoth
Plates
Mammoth Plate Photographs
Becoming a Professional Photographer
Yosemite Valley and Related Pictures
San Francisco and the Pacific Coast
South, East, and North of San Francisco
The Californa Missions Project
- Northern and Central California
- Southern California and Arizona
Picturing the Topographical Landscape
Railroads and Agriculture
Mining
Other Subjects
- Portraits and Works of Art
Watkins used a specially constructed camera to expose 18 x 22 inch glass plates. He created over 1200 mammoth plate photographs during his career. Watkins photographs of Yosemite were very influentual in creation of the park.
Stereographs
1859-1874
Stereographs 1859-1874 (Watkins Old Series and Watkins Pacific Railroad)
Stereographs
Stereographs
Watkins Pacific Railroad
Watkins was widely recognized for his photographs during this time, receiving a medal from the Paris International Exposition in 1867. This group of photographs are known as Watkins Old Series and are some of the earliest photographs of California and Oregon.
Stereographs
1875-1890
Stereographs 1875 to 1890 (Watkins New Series)
Stereographs
Stereographs
Unnumbered Series
- Fourteenth Industrial Exposition
- A.B. Clark, Anaheim
Albumns
- Sunny Slope, San Gabriel, Cal.
After the loss of his earlier negatives to a creditor during a financial crisis, Carleton Watkins started photographing anew in the mid-1870s. Watkins' "New Series" stereographs begin with series number 3001.
Other
Formats
Photographs in other Formats
Albums
Studio Portraits
- Photographs made in Watkins San Franciso Studio
CdV, Cabinet Card, Boudoir Card, Imperial Mount and other Medium Format Prints
Watkins published prints in a variety of formats during his career including Albums, Cabinet Cards, and 8x10 prints.
Documents &
Ephemera
Documents & Ephemera
Includes advertising, trade cards, personal correspondence, and other documents.
About
About Carleton Watkins
About CarletonWatkins.org

Contributors to CarletonWatkins.org

The images and information that make up CarletonWatkins.org have been provided by many institutions and individuals with a shared interest: to promote the photography of Carleton Watkins, complete the digital cataloging of his photographs and make it available to everyone.

We wish to acknowledge their expertise, dedication. and support.

Institutions

American Antiquarian Society
Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
California State Library
Denver Public Library
George Eastman House
Library of Congress
The Mechanics' Institute Library
Online Archive of California
San Francisco History Center Stereograph Collection, San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
Marilyn Blaisdell Photograph Collection (SFP 84) , San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
The Society of California Pioneers
Society of California Pioneers, Gift of Peter Palmquist
The Huntington Library
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The New York Public Library
UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside
Wilson Centre for Photography
Yosemite Museum, National Park Service

Individuals

Leonard Ances
Phil Anderson Collection
The Dave Bernhisel Collection
Stephen Bohrer
Robert Bothamley
John Carpenter
Jim Crain
Dorothy Crane Collection
David Dickinson
William Dunsil
Bill Eloe
EstatesUnlimitedInc
R. Paul Firnhaber
Roger Genser - The Prints & The Pauper
Mike Grant
Bruce Graver
www.caviews.com
Ed Herny
Karen Heselton
Steve Heselton
Ralph Hollibaugh
David Horine
William Jaeger
Drew Johnson
Lawrence T Jones III
Dan Kerlee Collection
Mead B. Kibbey
David Knight
Jeffrey Kraus Antique Photographica
Stereoview.net
Bruce Lancaster
Kim Leavitt
Linda M. Lebsack Brooks
Bill Lee
Gary D. Lowe
Andrew Martin
Mason Collection
Miguel A. Mata
Carl Mautz
Nancy McCreery
Kathi McGraw
Matt Michaleski
David Miura
Weston Naef
Phil Nathanson
Russell Norton - www.stereoview.com
Graham Pilecki
Ken Rosen
Jeremy Rowe Vintage Photography
Paul Rubinstein - YNP Collector Stereoviews
Paul Tyan
Kyle Schuelein
Robert Smith - roberts3d.com
Keith Stern
Matt Talos
John Waldsmith
Rex Walker
Len Walle
John Weiler
Kevin Wilkeson
Ken and Bonnie Williams - www.oldviews.com
Dave and Cindy Wood
Nick Wright
Harper Wright on behalf of the Estate of Helen Carroll Wright

Tips for searching CarletonWatkins.org

Enter one or more words or numbers and click "Search".

Searches may contain letters, numbers, underscore, dash and spaces.

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The Options drop-down lets you narrow your search

Picture Categories

Featured Watkins Photographs

Mammoth Plate Photographs

Becoming a Professional Photographer

Yosemite Valley and Related Pictures

San Francisco and the Pacific Coast

South, East, and North of San Francisco

The Californa Missions Project

Picturing the Topographical Landscape

Railroads and Agriculture

Mining

Other Subjects

Watkins used a specially constructed camera to expose 18 x 22 inch glass plates. He created over 1200 mammoth plate photographs during his career. Watkins photographs of Yosemite were very influentual in creation of the park.

Stereographs 1859-1874 (Watkins Old Series and Watkins Pacific Railroad)

Stereographs

Stereographs

Watkins Pacific Railroad

Watkins was widely recognized for his photographs during this time, receiving a medal from the Paris International Exposition in 1867. This group of photographs are known as Watkins Old Series and are some of the earliest photographs of California and Oregon.

Stereographs 1875 to 1890 (Watkins New Series)

Stereographs

Stereographs

Unnumbered Series

Albumns

After the loss of his earlier negatives to a creditor during a financial crisis, Carleton Watkins started photographing anew in the mid-1870s. Watkins' "New Series" stereographs begin with series number 3001.

Photographs in other Formats

Albums

Studio Portraits

CdV, Cabinet Card, Boudoir Card, Imperial Mount and other Medium Format Prints

Watkins published prints in a variety of formats during his career including Albums, Cabinet Cards, and 8x10 prints.

Documents & Ephemera

Includes advertising, trade cards, personal correspondence, and other documents.

Contributors to CarletonWatkins.org

Institutions

Individuals

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