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[Pacific Mail Steamship Company Wharf, San Francisco]

Description: [Watkins no. 613] View looking down at warehouses, other structures, and ships at wharf. Signs on buildings read: "PMSS Co. New York via Panama" and "PMSS Co. China via Japan" and "Oriental U.S. Bonded Warehouse. Howard & Pool."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1871
Call number: (photCL Watkins 94)
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E (1829-1916)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1968.; Purchased from Grahame Hardy, 1964.; Purchased from David Magee, 1958.; Gift of Arthur N. Carter, 1936; 1938.; Purchased from Warren Howell, 1966.; Transferred from John Haskell Kemble collection, 1997.; Purchased by the Library Collectors' Council from Michael Dawson, 2012.

[Pacific Mail Steamship Company Wharf, San Francisco]

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[Watkins no. 613] View looking down at warehouses, other structures, and ships at wharf. Signs on buildings read: "PMSS Co. New York via Panama" and "PMSS Co. China via Japan" and "Oriental U.S. Bonded Warehouse. Howard & Pool."

photCL Watkins 94

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[Pacific Mail Steamship Company Wharf, San Francisco]

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[Watkins no. 613] Same image as photCL Watkins 94. Variant copy.

(photCL Watkins 94a)

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[Pacific Mail Steamship Company Dock, Coal Yard, Marine Hospital, San Francisco]

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[Watkins no. 612] Watkins' photography wagon is seen in lower left. Signs can be seen for bars and grocery stores. Many ships are docked at shore. St. Mary's Hospital on Rincon Hill is at left center, and in the distance, the U.S. Marine Hospital on Rincon Point.

(photCL Watkins 95)

[Pacific Mail Steamship Company Dock, Coal Yard, Marine Hospital, San Francisco]

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photCL Watkins 95

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[Steamer landing at foot of Broadway, San Diego. Pacific Coast Steamship Company wharf.]

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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

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[Coe-Raymond-Earl Residence, Harrison and Essex Streets, Rincon Hill, San Francisco]

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[Watkins' number unknown.] Title and date supplied by cataloger. The residence is named after several prominent occupants: L. W. Coe; I. W. Raymond, of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co.,; and John O. Earl, one of the largest stockholders of the Bank of California. On verso of print is the stamp of Charles Turrill, Watkins' friend and biographer.

(photCL Watkins 98)

[Pacific Mail Steamship Company Wharf, San Francisco]

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