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Watkins, Carleton E.
American (1829-1916)

TITLE ON OBJECT: The Ladders, YoSemite

1861
collodion stereo positive on glass
6.0 x 7.6 cm. on 8.3 x 17.1 cm. mount.
Gift of C. R. Witherspoon
GEH NEG: 19805
82:2364:0016

OLD GEH NUMBER: 2354
NON-GEH NUMBER: pub. series #0082

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Grenbeaux, Pauline. "Before Yosemite Art Gallery: Watkins' Early Career.", --California History--, Vol. LVII, no. 3, 1978 Fall. p. 236-241.//
Palmquist, Peter. --Carleton E. Watkins: Photographer of the American West.-- Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(signature in ink) "title Watkins"

FRAME: stereoview on glass

NOTES: Cataloged 8/85, SB. No. 82 in Baird Collection. See trade publication; Norton, Russell. --Yosemite Photographs by Carleton E. Watkins, 1861--. New Haven: n.d., p.11. See Watkins IF for list of glass stereos from L. Smaus.

SUBJECT: landscape, rocky

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