Franciscan Missions of California Photographs, ca. 1876-1882

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Franciscan Missions of California Photographs, ca. 1876-1882

1 album of 35 albumen photographic prints; images measure 8 1/2 x 12 in., mounted to 13 1/4 x 18 1/4 in.; 35 digital objects

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Watkins, C. E.

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Biography Carleton E. Watkins was born in Oneonta, Oswego county, New York, on November 11, 1829. He was the youngest of five children of a Scottish innkeeper. During his youth he became acquainted with Collis P. Huntington, who frequented his father's hotel. Soon after the discovery of gold, both young men went to California, where Huntington later became one of the Big Four who built the Central Pacific Railroad. In 1854, while ...