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El Gobernador. Built at S.P.R.R. Shops, Sac., Cal

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Image size: 14 1/4 x 21 in.

Note: View of men posed with a steam locomotive. Printed on label after title: "Drain of Cylinder, 21 inch. Stroke, 36 inch. Total weight of engine, 73 tons. Weight on drivers, 64 tons. Diam. of drivers, 4 ft., 9 in. Weight of tender, light, 50, 650 lbs. Total length of engine and tender, 65 ft., 5 in. Driving Wheel Base, 19 ft., 7 in. Rigid Wheel Base, 14 ft., 7 in. Water capacity of tender, 3600 gals." The label for this print does not have Watkins' photograph number and none is given in Naef, dated 1887-1889; Green dates 1886-1889 in correspondence June 12, 2019.

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[1886-1889]

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137500; 137501; 137502; 137503

Summits of the Sierras

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In 1879, Watkins was commissioned to travel to the peaks of California's Sierra Nevada mountains to photograph the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey led by George Davidson (1825-1911). The photographs in this album were made during that commission, in the summer of 1879. The album opens with a scene of people positioned in front of a hotel on the shore of Lake Independence, followed by views across the lake looking up toward Mount Lola. Watkins then ascended to the survey base at the top of Mount Lola (9,148 ft.), where he made several photographs of the vistas and details of the rocky terrain, including trees, rivers, canyons, and lakes. He also climbed to the summit of Round Top (10,381 ft.), and made several photographs from that viewpoint, including one carefully orchestrated view of Davidson and his team posed with their instruments and an observation hut on the craggy summit. Occasional figures appear on ridgelines in the photographs, and tents and wooden huts erected by the survey team are seen in some views.

137500; 137501; 137502; 137503

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Cereus Giganteus. / S.P.R.R., Arizona

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Image size: 14 1/8 x 21 1/8 in. Note: View of saguaro cactus. Naef no. 932.

137500; 137501; 137502; 137503

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City of Tucson. / S.P.R.R., Arizona

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Image size: 14 1/8 x 21 in. Note: Naef no. 926.

137500; 137501; 137502; 137503

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Cereus Giganteus. / S.P.R.R., Arizona

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Image size: 14 1/8 x 21 1/8 in. Note: Naef no. 931.

137500; 137501; 137502; 137503

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Bridge over the Colorado, at Yuma. / S.P.R.R., Arizona

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Image size: 14 1/8 x 21 1/8 in. Note: Native American huts in view. Naef no. 918.

137500; 137501; 137502; 137503

Lawrence Machine Shop, Lawrence, Mass. Passenger Engine, 22 tons

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Image of an elevation view of the side of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, tender, and labels on the tender and cab that read "Abbott Lawrence," a label on the base of the steam dome for "Lawrence Machine Shop," and the label "No. 97" on the front cylinder; a small African American man stands atop the locomotive's front frame holding a rail; with two upper corner vignettes of elevated views of factory buildings in a rural setting titled "Rear view of works" and "Front view of works."

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El Gobernador. Built at S.P.R.R. Shops, Sac., Cal

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