Sale 2458 - Art & Storytelling: Photographs & Photobooks, October 19, 2017

24 24 c CARLETON E.WATKINS (1829-1916) The Golden Gate fromTelegraph 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 [6,000/9,000] This sweeping photograph is also titled Golden Gate Entrance to Harbor of San Francisco. Carleton E. Watkins: Photographs 1861-1874 (Fraenkel Gallery), pl. 64 (full frame). 25 c TIMOTHY O’SULLIVAN (1840-1882) & WM. H. JACKSON (1843-1942) North Fork Cañon, Sierra Blanca Creek,Arizona *The Loop Above Georgetown Union Pacific Rv. A pair of albumen prints, the images measuring 7 7 / 8 x10 3 / 4 and 9 1 / 2 x12 1 / 2 inches (20.1x27.3 and 24.1x31.8 cm.) the first on the two-toned Wheeler Survey mount 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), with O’Sullivan’s credit, title, plate no. 4, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Geological Survey credit and date, and the imprint of the War Department, Corps of Engineers, on mount recto; the second flush mounted, with Jackson’s credit, inventory number, and caption, on recto, and notations, in pencil, a hand stamp, and a partial label on mount verso. 1873, circa 1875 [3,500/4,500]

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