WATKINS, Carleton (1829-1916). "Arizona & California Illustrated." [San Francisco], ca 1870s.
WATKINS, Carleton (1829-1916). "Arizona & California Illustrated." [San Francisco], ca 1870s. Oblong 2 o (365 x 548 mm). Two calligraphic title leaves in gold for each section (Arizona and California), 529 mounted albumen photographs on 25 mounts, comprising: ARIZONA: 4 large-format (each approximately 200 x 250 mm), 9 medium-format (each approximately 200 x 122 mm) and 300 small-format (each approximately 85 x 80 mm); CALIFORNIA: 216 small-format (each approximately 85 x 80 mm). (Some oxidation and fading, some spotting.) Manuscript identifications in pencil of subjects on 19 sheets laid in (11 for Arizona and 8 for California, comprising nearly all of the included subjects except those on the first 6 mounts and the final mount). Contemporary half morocco, gilt-lettered morocco lettering-piece on front cover (dampstained and buckled). Provenance : Col. Augustus G. Tassin (d. 1893), appointed Colonel of the 35th Indiana in February 1865 and Captain of the 12th Infantry in July 1866 (gilt-lettered moroco label on front cover). AN INCREDIBLY RICH AND DETAILED COLLECTION OF WATKINS'S CELEBRATED PHOTOGRAPHS OF ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA, including ethnographic portraits, topographic and city views, botanical subjects, settler's homesteads, military posts and forts, railroads. Among the subjects (identified on the manuscripts slips laid in) are: ARIZONA (in order of appearance): the Colorado River; the water works at Fort Mohave; steamboats and ferryboats; a settler on the Gila; the San Carlos Indian Reservation; a prospector's group ready to embark; the Black River; Chief Chiquito and his family, a squaw making bread; a mask of the Yagui Indians; Camp Thomas; Major Arnold and his family; Cashete (Apache scout); butchering beef on a reservation; views in TUCSON (18, including the Cosmopolitan Hotel); PHOENIX (called "Phenise", including the mill); saw mills near Prescott; Silver King city, mill and mine; Montezuma's Well; Fort Apache; Fort Whipple; Bradshaw's Basin; Aztec ruins; railroads; Apache scouts. CALIFORNIA (in order of appearance): "Wheeler's part of U.S. Engineer's exploring the U.S. Domain West of the 100th Meridian"; YOSEMITE (58 images), including lower Yosemite Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, Vernal Falls, Sentinel Rock, Half Dome, North Dome, El Capitan, Agassiz Rock, Glacier Point; San Diego Mission; San Antonio Mission; LOS ANGELES AND ENVIRONS (approximately 30 images), including the Public School, surf in Santa Monica, palm trees in southern California, an orange grove near San Gabriel, Sierra Madre Hotel; the St. Charles Hotel, the horse racing track, the "wine house" in San Gabriel, the Santa Monica Depot in Los Angeles, the hotel at Santa Monica; San Luis Obispo; SANTA BARBARA, including the mission; Donner Pass; freight Depot at Reno, Nevada; the American River; Emigrant Gap; American Peak; Palace and Grand Hotel; SAN FRANCISCO AND ENVIRONS, including the Cliff House restaurant; residence of Mark Hopkins of the California Rail Road, Palace Hotel, view from Gov. Stanford's residence, Southern Pacific Rail Road, the Safe Deposit Building, Selby Smelting Works, Market and Port Streets, view from Russian Hill, interior of a Chinese restaurant, residence of Ralston Belmont, view of Montgomery Street from Sutter Street, residence of Charles Crocker, a Victoria regia at Golden Gate Park, the U.S. Mint; NEVADA, with views of Virginia City, Silver City, "First Construction train passing the Palisades"; the Redwood Forest and environs, and a view near the end of six people at the Big Grape Vine, near Santa Barbara. The photographs of Yosemite are among the earliest recorded (J.M. Hutchings, in the December 1859 issue of his California Magazine , recorded the first, taken by C.L. Wee in 1857) and are the first substantial record of the area. Of considerable importance is the series of 30 images of Los Angeles and its environs at the beginning of its urban development. Following the breakup of the large ranchos in the 1860s
WATKINS, Carleton (1829-1916). "Arizona & California Illustrated." [San Francisco], ca 1870s.
WATKINS, Carleton (1829-1916). "Arizona & California Illustrated." [San Francisco], ca 1870s. Oblong 2 o (365 x 548 mm). Two calligraphic title leaves in gold for each section (Arizona and California), 529 mounted albumen photographs on 25 mounts, comprising: ARIZONA: 4 large-format (each approximately 200 x 250 mm), 9 medium-format (each approximately 200 x 122 mm) and 300 small-format (each approximately 85 x 80 mm); CALIFORNIA: 216 small-format (each approximately 85 x 80 mm). (Some oxidation and fading, some spotting.) Manuscript identifications in pencil of subjects on 19 sheets laid in (11 for Arizona and 8 for California, comprising nearly all of the included subjects except those on the first 6 mounts and the final mount). Contemporary half morocco, gilt-lettered morocco lettering-piece on front cover (dampstained and buckled). Provenance : Col. Augustus G. Tassin (d. 1893), appointed Colonel of the 35th Indiana in February 1865 and Captain of the 12th Infantry in July 1866 (gilt-lettered moroco label on front cover). AN INCREDIBLY RICH AND DETAILED COLLECTION OF WATKINS'S CELEBRATED PHOTOGRAPHS OF ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA, including ethnographic portraits, topographic and city views, botanical subjects, settler's homesteads, military posts and forts, railroads. Among the subjects (identified on the manuscripts slips laid in) are: ARIZONA (in order of appearance): the Colorado River; the water works at Fort Mohave; steamboats and ferryboats; a settler on the Gila; the San Carlos Indian Reservation; a prospector's group ready to embark; the Black River; Chief Chiquito and his family, a squaw making bread; a mask of the Yagui Indians; Camp Thomas; Major Arnold and his family; Cashete (Apache scout); butchering beef on a reservation; views in TUCSON (18, including the Cosmopolitan Hotel); PHOENIX (called "Phenise", including the mill); saw mills near Prescott; Silver King city, mill and mine; Montezuma's Well; Fort Apache; Fort Whipple; Bradshaw's Basin; Aztec ruins; railroads; Apache scouts. CALIFORNIA (in order of appearance): "Wheeler's part of U.S. Engineer's exploring the U.S. Domain West of the 100th Meridian"; YOSEMITE (58 images), including lower Yosemite Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, Vernal Falls, Sentinel Rock, Half Dome, North Dome, El Capitan, Agassiz Rock, Glacier Point; San Diego Mission; San Antonio Mission; LOS ANGELES AND ENVIRONS (approximately 30 images), including the Public School, surf in Santa Monica, palm trees in southern California, an orange grove near San Gabriel, Sierra Madre Hotel; the St. Charles Hotel, the horse racing track, the "wine house" in San Gabriel, the Santa Monica Depot in Los Angeles, the hotel at Santa Monica; San Luis Obispo; SANTA BARBARA, including the mission; Donner Pass; freight Depot at Reno, Nevada; the American River; Emigrant Gap; American Peak; Palace and Grand Hotel; SAN FRANCISCO AND ENVIRONS, including the Cliff House restaurant; residence of Mark Hopkins of the California Rail Road, Palace Hotel, view from Gov. Stanford's residence, Southern Pacific Rail Road, the Safe Deposit Building, Selby Smelting Works, Market and Port Streets, view from Russian Hill, interior of a Chinese restaurant, residence of Ralston Belmont, view of Montgomery Street from Sutter Street, residence of Charles Crocker, a Victoria regia at Golden Gate Park, the U.S. Mint; NEVADA, with views of Virginia City, Silver City, "First Construction train passing the Palisades"; the Redwood Forest and environs, and a view near the end of six people at the Big Grape Vine, near Santa Barbara. The photographs of Yosemite are among the earliest recorded (J.M. Hutchings, in the December 1859 issue of his California Magazine , recorded the first, taken by C.L. Wee in 1857) and are the first substantial record of the area. Of considerable importance is the series of 30 images of Los Angeles and its environs at the beginning of its urban development. Following the breakup of the large ranchos in the 1860s
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