Mammoth plate landscape photographs from the George Davidson collection 1860-1879?

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Mammoth plate landscape photographs from the George Davidson collection 1860-1879?

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Large format photographs of Western landscapes by C.E. Watkins and W.H. Jackson, collected by George Davidson. Watkins views include Mt. Lassen, Mt. Shasta (1870?), and Mt. Lola (1879), and various Yosemite views (1861-1869.) Jackson views are of Yellowstone National Park and landscapes in the Wyoming and Montana Territories (1872?).

110 photographic prints : albumen ; mounts between 36 x 47 cm. and 62 x 86 cm.; 76 digital objects

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Bancroft Library

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Davidson, George, 1909-1995

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Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

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Watkins was a pioneer California photographer, most well known for his large-format photographs. From the description of Views of Thurlow Lodge by Carleton Watkins: photograph album, circa 1874. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510599 An American landscape photographer, Carleton E. Watkins was noted for his views of the Pacific Northwest and Yosemite. From the description of Carleton E. Watkins Collection. [1879]. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); ...

Jackson, William Henry

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On the 4th of July, 1876, as the United States turned 100, a group of people [the 'Boston Party'] from the east built a flagpole out of a pine tree and raised the American flag in Antelope Park. Seven years later, a railroad--the Atlantic and Pacific Railway--was constructed through Antelope Park. The town was named for the flagstaff which was still standing. Photographer William Henry Jackson traveled from Denver to photograph the Grand Canyon in 1883. He returned to the Canyon in 1892. ...