Visual Materials

Cloud View, Donner Lake

Description: Hart #238
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1860s-approximately 1880s.
Call number: photCL 74
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E (1829-1916)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: In the personal library of Henry E. Huntington. Recorded in library card catalog, 1928. Presumed to have been the gift of Carleton E. Watkins to Collis P. Huntington. Henry E. Huntington was the executor of Collis P. Huntington's estate.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information. RESTRICTED: Original album (Box 10): Fragile; available with curatorial approval.
Rights

Mist rising from Donner Lake. Early Morning View

Visual Materials

Hart #260

photCL 74

Image not available

Castle Peak, from Railroad. Above Donner Lake

Visual Materials

Hart #258

photCL 74

Image not available

Truckee River below Truckee Station, looking west toward Donner Lake

Visual Materials

Hart #221

photCL 74

Image not available

Truckee River below Truckee Station, looking west toward Donner Lake

Visual Materials

Hart #221

photCL 74

Image not available

[Donner Lake.]

Visual Materials

This collection contains 430 albumen photographs by photographer Carleton E. Watkins that chiefly depict buildings, points of interest, and locales in Northern and Southern California in the 1870s and 1880s, as well as 223 card photographs by photographer Alfred A. Hart documenting the construction of the western half of the transcontinental railroad by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) in the 1860s, which were later published by Watkins under his own imprint. Images by Watkins depict locations in Arizona and California including: Lake Tahoe, Los Angeles, the Mammoth Tree Grove, Paso Robles, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Gabriel, San Luis Obispo, San Pedro, Santa Monica, Soda Springs, Wilmington, and Yosemite, as well as views related to the Southern Pacific Railroad and of the Colorado River. There are a few images of Native Americans in Arizona and California, and several images related to trains and railroads. The photographs have been removed from the original album, which is a large leather album with brass bindings (Box 10). There are some handwritten identifications in the album pages, most likely written after if was received by the Library.

photCL 74

Image not available

[Donner Lake.]

Visual Materials

photCL 74

Cloud View, Donner Lake

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Mist rising from Donner Lake. Early Morning View

Castle Peak, from Railroad. Above Donner Lake

Truckee River below Truckee Station, looking west toward Donner Lake

Truckee River below Truckee Station, looking west toward Donner Lake

[Donner Lake.]

[Donner Lake.]