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Lawrence and Houseworth photograph collection
Collection — Box: P011
Identifier: PC-RM-Lawrence-Houseworth
Abstract
Lawrence and Houseworth were one of the main publishers of stereoviews on the West coast around the 1860s. They sold views primarily of California and Nevada, and the majority of their photographs are of nature scenes, and the wonders of California's redwoods, geysers, lakes and mountains. The collection contains commercial formats - stereographs and cartes de visites. They were taken by photographer Charles Leander Weed and published by Lawrence and Houseworth, who did a brisk business...
Dates:
1860-1870
Found in:
California Historical Society
Carleton E. Watkins photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: PC-RM-Watkins
Abstract
Carleton E. Watkins was a 19th century photographer based in San Francisco who made his name documenting the rapid growth of the American West, and whose name is frequently associated with the birth of the photographic medium – particularly with early landscape photography. This collection contains albumen prints taken throughout his career, between the years of 1856 and 1885. The bulk of photographs taken depict the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove, and were taken at various points...
Dates:
1856-1885
Found in:
California Historical Society
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