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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
A Catalogue Of The Descendants Of Thomas Watkins, Of Chickahomony, Va;
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Watkins writes that he is doing well, but not as well as he had hoped. He is in on two claims at around two hundred dollars each, but is not sure where he will go next, for "claims in this part of the mines is failing fast." He is enjoying the California climate, but there are "hardly any wimin girls Darn scarce." With negative photostat facsimile.
mssHM 16533
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Visual Materials
These stereographs are chiefly on yellow or orange mounts, with the text "C.E. Watkins, Pacific Coast" or "Watkins' Pacific Coast" printed in the left margin, and often listing studio addresses including "429 Montgomery Street, San Francisco," "22 and 26 Montgomery Street, opposite Lick House entrance, San Francisco," and "No. 1 Montgomery St., cor Post, San Francisco."
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Visual Materials
These stereographs are on orange mounts with text beginning "Watkins' New Series" printed in the left margin. Earlier numbers have the imprint "Watkins' New Series, Yosemite and Pacific Coast. 26 Montgomery Street and Woodward's Garden, S.F." and later numbers read "Watkins' New Series Of Pacific Coast Views, 427 Montgomery Street, S.F."
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Visual Materials
This collection contains 269 stereographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins, dating from the 1860s to about the 1880s, that chiefly depict buildings, points of interest, and locales in Northern and Southern California. The collection includes 1 stereograph from the Central Pacific Railroad series; 5 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Railroad Series; 110 stereographs from Watkins' Pacific Coast series; and 150 stereographs from Watkins' New Series. The Watkins' Pacific Coast Series, created between 1861 and 1874, primarily depict locales in Northern California with many images of buildings in San Francisco, views of Yosemite and Mariposa County, Missions, and some mining operations including photographs of the North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company in Nevada County, California. The Watkins' New Series stereographs, created between 1874 and 1890, consist of images of both Southern California and Northern California, in cities including San Francisco, Pasadena, San Marino, Sierra Madre, and San Gabriel. Among the Southern California residences and properties depicted include the Sunny Slope Ranch of L.J. Rose in San Gabriel, Willow Dale owned by N.C. Carter, and Lake Vineyard owned by B.D. Wilson. Some of the stereographs in Watkins' Pacific Coast Series include titles in the margins in Watkins' own hand (see Nos. 1033, 1135, 1146, 1153, and 1721).
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Manuscripts
Genealogical history detailing the experiences of the Judd family from the 17th-19th centuries. The manuscript begins with Thomas Judd in 1633, but concerns most particularly the lives of Mormons Zadok Knapp Judd Jr. (1855-1952) and his wife Ada Marie Howell Judd (1867-1953).
mssHM 70169