Visual Materials

The Loop, Tehachapi Pass, S.P.R.R., Cal

Description: Watkins New Series #4301 and Watkins Mammoth #1135
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.

Side View of the Loop, S.P.R.R. Kern County, Cal

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Watkins Mammoth New Series #1128

photCL 74

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Bayonet Cactus. Tehachapi Pass, Kern Co., S.P.R.R

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Watkins New Series #3666

photCL 74

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Interior of Tunnel No. 10, Tehachapi Pass, Kern Co., S.P.R.R

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Watkins New Series #3665

photCL 74

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Bayonet Cactus. Tehachapi Pass, Kern Co., S.P.R.R

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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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View at Keene, S.P.R.R., Cal

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Watkins New Series #4303

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Andrews Station, S.P.R.R., Cal

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Watkins New Series #4313

photCL 74

The Loop, Tehachapi Pass, S.P.R.R., Cal

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