Hearst Mining Collection of Views by C. E. Watkins, 1871-1876

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Hearst Mining Collection of Views by C. E. Watkins, 1871-1876

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150 photographs in 12 oversize boxes; 139 digital objects

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Bancroft Library

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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 ...