Mammoth plate landscape photographs from the George Davidson collection [graphic]. ca. 1861-1881.

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Mammoth plate landscape photographs from the George Davidson collection [graphic]. ca. 1861-1881.

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Large format photographs of Western landscapes by C.E. Watkins and W.H. Jackson, collected by George Davidson. The 76 photographs by Watkins can be described as three different groups: Lassen and Shasta views (presumably all from the King Survey, 1870?), Mt. Lola area views taken as part of the 1879 U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey under George Davidson and, thirdly, Yosemite views. The 1870 survey views show Mt. Lassen, hot springs near Lassen, Mt. Shasta (including the Whitney Glacier). These views are smaller than mammoth sized, approximately 21 x 31 cm. The Mt. Lola area views of 1879 are mammoth sized. (Note that Watkins' Round Top series owned by George Davidson are not present in the Bancroft Library collection. They remained at the California Academy of Sciences until their 2009 sale at Bonhams and Butterfields. Other copies of the Round Top views are in the collections of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Univerisity of California at Berkeley.) The Yosemite views are all mammoth sized, chiefly dome-topped prints from negatives of 1861, and on exceptionally large mounts. Several appear to be "new series" (1878-1881) images on different mounts, suggesting the items were not not all originally acquired as a single, uniform set. The 25 views by Jackson are from Montana and Wyoming; predominantly Yellowstone National Park. Included are the Yellowstone River, canyon, falls, Mystic Lake, geysers, the Gallatin River and canyon, Mt. Blackmore, and the Teton range. Some, if not all, date from the summer 1872 expedition of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories (the Hayden Survey).

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

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