Watkins Pacific Coast At Cliff House San Francisco CA Stereoview

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Type:Stereoview & Stereoscope
Brand/Publisher:Carleton Watkins
Subject:Historic & Vintage
Antique:Yes
Vintage:Yes
Production Technique:Stereoview
Original/Licensed Reproduction:Original Print
Time Period Manufactured:1860-1879

Watkins Pacific Coast At Cliff House San Francisco CA Stereoview About The Photographer:Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) is perhaps the most famous early western photographer. He found international fame for his award winning photographs of Yosemite, San Francisco, the Pacific coast and subjects throughout the western states. Watkins is best known for his mammoth plate photographs but actually published the majority of his work as stereoviews. They represent a comprehensive look into California and the West from the 1860s through the 1890s. Carleton Watkins was born in Oneonta, New York on November 11, 1829. He traveled to California with Collis Huntington (later to become one of the “Big Four” owners of the Central Pacific Railroad).   Watkins was employed by Huntington in Sacramento delivering supplies to the mining operations. After the great Sacramento city fire of November 2-3, 1852 he set out to be a professional photographer. Between 1852 and 1854 Watkins worked as the camera operator for several established photographers including Robert Vance who had a gallery at the corner of Sacramento and Montgomery Streets, near George Murray’s Bookstore where Watkins worked as a clerk. By 1858 Watkins was working on his own, taking on a number of photographic commissions for publishers and individuals, such as James M. Hutching who used the photographs as a source for engravings in his “Illustrated California Magazine”. He produced photographs for evidence in courts of law and also documented the mining estate of John Fremont and his wife Jessie Benton Fremont in Mariposa County and their estate at Black Point. In July of 1861 Watkins traveled to Yosemite equipped with a mammoth-plate camera, which used 18 by 22 inch glass plate negatives, and a stereoscopic camera.   He returned with 30 mammoth plate and dozens of stereoscopic negatives (see stereographs numbered 1 through 100). These photographs and later Yosemite images, established him as a master of landscape photography.   The prints helped influence the U.S. Congress to pass legislation protecting Yosemite Valley. Watkins may have traveled to Yosemite in 1858-59 and the first 100 stereographs could include a combination of the two trips. By 1863 Watkins was selling stereoviews of Yosemite, the New Almaden mining region, the Mendocino coast as well as views of San Francisco. Watkins issued his early stereoviews on glass mounts and on card mounts with handwritten titles. These have come to be known as manuscript or hand-signed Watkins views.  After about 1863, stereoviews were mounted on yellow cards with printed labels. These were later replaced with orange card stock and printed labels. Watkins won many awards during his career, starting in 1865 with an award for “Mountain Views” at the Mechanics’ Institute Exhibition in San Francisco. In 1867 Watkins won a medal for landscape photographs at the Paris International Exposition and the following year started printing his stereoviews with an acknowledgment of the medal on the back of the card. After problems with Eastern firms pirating his images, Watkins began copyrighted his work in 1867. Stereoviews were printed with copyright dates on the mount with imprinted titles and numbers. In 1867, Watkins also traveled to Oregon and photographed Portland and the Columbia River area for the Oregon Steam Ship Navigation Company.   Shortly after the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, Watkins purchased Alfred A. Hart’s negatives of the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, probably through his relationship with Collis Huntington. Watkins published them under the series title “Watkins Central Pacific Railroad” using Hart’s original view numbers (1 through 364). Watkins continued to travel widely, making photographic excursions to Northern California, Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada mountains as well as Utah. Watkins photo wagon, which served as a portable darkroom in the field, displayed advertising for his San Francsico studio. In 1871 Watkins moved his studio to number 22-26 Montgomery Street. Located near one of his largest competitors, Thomas Houseworth, & Co, he named the establishment the “Yosemite Art Gallery”. In the mid-1870s both photographers had studios in the first block of Montgomery Street.   The location was convenient to tourists staying just across the street at the Lick House, and to the Palace Hotel at the end of the block. While Watkins won acclaim for his artistic efforts he was not considered a good businessman and, during the financial crisis of 1875, lost his studio and negatives to creditor J. J. Cook. Cook, along with photographer I. W. Taber, took over the Yosemite Art Gallery. Taber began marketing Watkins stereoviews under the I. W. Taber label, although retaining Watkins original view numbers and titles. In spite of this devastating setback, Watkins began to rebuild his inventory of negatives by revisiting locations he photographed in the 1860’s.   He called these views “Watkins New Series” and started numbering at 3000.  Over the next ten years Watkins photographed much of California and the western states eventually publishing more than 2300 New Series titles. Subjects include the Central Pacific Railroad, Sierra Nevada mining, Lake Tahoe, Big Trees, Virginia City, southern California, Arizona, the Pacific Northwest, Yellowstone, and of course, extensive coverage of San Francisco and the Bay Area. By the mid-1890’s Watkins deteriorating eyesight and other health problems impacted his ability to work. The earthquake of 1906 destroyed Watkins studio along with the negatives of his life’s work. Watkins died on June 23, 1916 at the age of eighty-seven. Although the negatives were lost, Watkins prints exist today in many private and institutional collections.  Information from: Carletonwatkins.org website  Please See our other views. We do combine shipping.Keyword Search:Stereo ViewStereoscopeStereographStereoscopio Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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