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Watkins, Carleton E.
American (1829-1916)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Lady Jane Franklin & party at Mariposa Grove

1861
collodion stereo positive on glass
6.1 x 8.3 cm. on 8.2 x 17.0 cm. mount.
Gift of C. R. Witherspoon
GEH NEG: 19784
82:2364:0021

OLD GEH NUMBER: 2354
NON-GEH NUMBER: pub. series #0071

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Grenbeaux, Pauline. "Before Yosemite Art Gallery: Watkins' Early Career.", --California History--, Vol. LVII, no. 3, 1978 Fall. p. 238.//
Palmquist, Peter. --Carleton E. Watkins: Photographer of the American West.-- Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(signature in ink) "Mofe(?) Rock- Lady Franklin and party- YoSemite Watkins"

FRAME: stereoview on glass

NOTES: Cataloged 8/85, SB. No. 71 in Baird Collection. See trade publication; Norton, Russell. --Yosemite Photographs by Carleton E. Watkins--. New Haven: n.d. p.11. See Watkins IF for list of glass stereos from L. Smaus.

SUBJECTS:
personage, explorer / Franklin, Jane, Lady
portrait, ident / Thurston, D.P.
landscape, forest

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