The Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill
San Francisco: (c.1865). Albumen stereoview [8 cm x 15 cm] on an orange 'Watkins Pacific Coast' mount [8.5 cm x 17 cm]. Nice contrasts with gentle wear to extremities of mount. Mnauscript notes on the back in red ink. Item #11065
View from Telegraph Hill of Fisherman's Wharf and Fort Mason with the San Francisco Bay in the background Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916) was one of the finest photographers of the nineteenth century. Between 1854 and 1891 he documented the American West from southern California to British Columbia and inland to Montana, Utah, and Arizona. He was a sympathetic and masterful recorder, whose pictures possess a clarity and strength equal to the magnificence of the land. His photographs of Yosemite so captured the imagination of legislators that Congress moved to preserve the area as a wilderness.
Price: $100.00