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Lot 933
Sale 1047 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots Open
Jun 17, 2022
Lots Close
Jun 28, 2022
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 -
400
Price Realized
$469
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Lot Description
[WESTERN AMERICANA]. WATKINS, Carleton (1829-1916), photographer. A group of 12 stereoviews of the Pacific Coast. San Francisco, CA.
6 x 3 in. stereoviews, or smaller, on cardstock mounts (toning, some soiling and light, scattered spotting to prints; corner and edge wear to mounts). Rectos with photographer's series titles "Watkins' Pacific Coast" or "Watkins' New Series," and image title in lower margin. Two also include Watkins' studio imprint to verso.
Titles from "Watkins' Pacific Coast" series include: The foot of the Vernal Fall. -- Yowiye, or the Nevada Fall and Pool. -- Mirror View, Yosemite Valley (2). -- Cape Horn, Columbia River. -- View on the Columbia River, from the O.R.R., Cascades. -- On the Way to the Geysers.
Titles from "Watkins' New Series" include: Liberty Cap and the Vernal Fall, Yosemite. -- Mirror view of the Half Dome, Yosemite. -- Dead Giant, Tuolumne Grove, 30 ft. 8 in. diam. Big Oak Flat route to Yosemite (vertical crease through center of mount). -- Glacier Point from Eagle Point trail, Yosemite. -- Cathedral Rocks and Spires, Yosemite Valley.
Property of a New York Lady

