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Antique maps by Carleton E. Watkins

Carleton Watkins (American, 1829-1916) was one of the most highly acclaimed of early western photographers, yet Watkins's work has never been fully cataloged. No complete listings of his "Old Series" stereoviews, published before 1875, are known.  

Watkins extensively photographed early San Francisco, Yosemite, Mendocino and the Sierra Nevada mining regions. His photogaphs of Yosemite helped influence Congress and President Lincoln in the preservation of Yosemite Valley. Watkins also made some of the earliest photographs of Southern California and the Pacific Nortwest. Watkins' Pacific Railroad series documents construction of the trans-continental railroad from Sacramento to Utah.

Nevada Map By Carleton E. Watkins / Frank Leslie
[Virginia City, N.T.] Nevada --- The Source of our Silver Wealth --- Panoramic View of Virginia City, Showing The Great Bonanza Mines on the Comstock Lode, Including The Consolidated Virginia, The California, The Ophir, The Gould & Curry, The Hale & Norcross, The Savage, Etc. From Photographs By Watkins of San Francisco, Cal.
Carleton E. Watkins / Frank Leslie
Place/Date:
New York / 1878
Size:
48.5 x 14.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
72892
Yosemite and Photographs Map By Carleton E. Watkins
(Mammoth Plate Photograph) [El Capitan, Yosemite]
Carleton E. Watkins
Place/Date:
n.p. / 1865 - 1866 circa
Size:
15 x 20.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
88268
Yosemite and Photographs Map By Carleton E. Watkins
(Mammoth Plate Photograph) Sentinel up the Valley - 3270 ft Yosemite [Sentinel Rock, View up Yosemite Valley]
Carleton E. Watkins
Place/Date:
np / 1865 - 1866 circa
Size:
15.25 x 20.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
88252
Yosemite and Photographs Map By Carleton E. Watkins
(Mammoth Plate Photograph) Cathedral Rock - Yo semite [Cathedral Rock, Yosemite]
Carleton E. Watkins
Place/Date:
np / 1865 circa
Size:
20.5 x 17 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
88251
Yosemite Map By Carleton E. Watkins
(Mammoth Plate Photograph) [Cathedral Spires, Yosemite]
Carleton E. Watkins
Place/Date:
Np / 1865 circa
Size:
15.25 x 20.25 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
88249
Yosemite Map By Carleton E. Watkins
(Mammoth Plate Photograph) [View on the Merced, Yosemite]
Carleton E. Watkins
Place/Date:
n.p. / 1861 1863 circa
Size:
20.25 x 15.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
88250
Yosemite and Photographs Map By Carleton E. Watkins / Isaiah West Taber
Bridal Veil Falls, 900 feet
Carleton E. Watkins / Isaiah West Taber
Place/Date:
San Francisco / 1880 circa
Size:
16 x 19.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
91487
Yosemite Map By Carleton E. Watkins / Isaiah West Taber
(Mammoth Plate Photograph) Nevada Fall
Carleton E. Watkins / Isaiah West Taber
Place/Date:
San Francisco / 1880 circa
Size:
16 x 20.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
91486
Oregon, California, Yosemite and Photographs Map By Carleton E. Watkins / Isaiah West Taber
(California - 19th-Century Photographs) [Album of 33 photographs of California, Oregon, and Washington, including Yosemite Valley, Stanford University, Sutro Heights in San Francisco; Mt. Hood; Mt. St. Helens; Portland, Oregon]
Carleton E. Watkins / Isaiah West Taber
Place/Date:
California / 1875 circa
Size:
13.25 x 11.25 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
94083

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Yosemite Map By Carleton E. Watkins
[Yosemite / Half Dome Photo] Tasayac, The Half Dome 5000 ft.
Carleton E. Watkins
Place/Date:
n.p. / 1865 - 1866
Size:
11.6 x 7.6 inches
Condition:
Good
Stock#:
62639
San Francisco & Bay Area and Photographs Map By Carleton E. Watkins / George H. Burgess
(California Bank Failure) [Composite Group Portrait of William C. Ralston and the Directors of the Bank of California, San Francisco]
Carleton E. Watkins / George H. Burgess
Place/Date:
San Francisco / 1875 circa
Size:
21.7 x 10 inches
Condition:
Good
Stock#:
92169
Rare Books, Yosemite and Photographs Map By Josiah Dwight Whitney / Carleton E. Watkins
The Yosemite Book; a Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California, illustrated by Maps and Photographs.
Josiah Dwight Whitney / Carleton E. Watkins
Place/Date:
New York / 1868
Size:
10.25 x 12.5 inches
Condition:
VG
Stock#:
94231