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Watkins' New Series

Description: 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."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1870s-approximately 1880s
Call number: photST Watkins
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E (1829-1916)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of; Items were received from various sources. When known, provenance information is written on the stereograph verso. Donors include Carter, 1937; and many were received as part of the Historical Society of Southern California Collection, 1992, and are stamped "Society of California Pioneers, Chas. B. Turrill Collection."

Watkins' Pacific Coast

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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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Watkins' Pacific Railroad

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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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The Yosemite Valley. Watkins Yosemite

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On the way to the lower falls, Watkins Yosemite

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Carleton E. Watkins Stereograph Collection

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