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CARLETON E.WATKINS
(1829-1916)
The Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco.
Albumen print,the image measuring 8
1
/
8
x12 inches
(20.6x30.5 cm.), with Watkins’ signature and title,
in pencil, on verso. Circa 1868
[10,000/15,000]
This sweeping photograph is also titled
Golden Gate
Entrance to Harbor of San Francisco.
A rare and early view of San Francisco’s Golden
Gate Bay, decades before the Bridge was erected
(in 1933).
The full plate of this image appears in
Carleton E.
Watkins:Photographs 1861-1874
(Fraenkel Gallery),
pl. 64.
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WILLIAM HENRY JACKSON
(1843-1942)
The Royal Gorge - Grand Canon of Arkansas.
Mammoth-plate albumen print, the image
measuring 21
1
/
8
x17 inches (53.7x43.2 cm.), the
two-toned mount 30x24 inches (76.2x61 cm.),
with Jackson’s title, in the negative, and his
letterpress credit on mount recto. Circa 1882
[2,000/3,000]
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