DOCSLIB.ORG

Carleton E. Watkins Photograph Collection PC RM Watkins

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Carleton E. Watkins Photograph Collection PC RM Watkins http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8rv0vc7 No online items Finding aid to the Carleton E. Watkins photograph collection PC RM Watkins The collection was processed by Erin Hurley in 2018. Wendy Welker previously processed the Yosemite mammoth prints and cabinet cards in 2015, and her finding aids were incorporated into this one. California Historical Society November 2018 678 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94105 [email protected] URL: http://californiahistoricalsociety.org/ Finding aid to the Carleton E. PC RM Watkins 1 Watkins photograph collection PC RM Watkins Identifier/Call Number: PC RM Watkins Title: Carleton E. Watkins photograph collection Date (inclusive): 1856-1885 Physical Description: 65.25 Linear Feet Language of Material: English Contributing Institution: California Historical Society Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916 Abstract: Carleton E. Watkins was a 19th century photographer based in San Francisco who made his name documenting the rapid growth of the American West, and whose name is frequently associated with the birth of the photographic medium – particularly with early landscape photography. This collection contains albumen prints taken throughout his career, between the years of 1856 and 1885. The bulk of photographs taken depict the Yosemite Valley and MariposaS Grove, and were taken at various points between 1861 and 1881. It includes large-format mammoth plate photographs and smaller photographic prints, as well as more commercial formats such as stereographs, cabinet cards, and boudoir cards. The photographs depict a variety of subjects, from San Francisco to various locations around the Western United States, as well as images of prominent visitors to San Francisco, and photographs of the homes of some of Watkins's wealthy patrons, among them bankers, railroad magnates, and politicians. Language of Material: Collection materials are in English. Biographical / Historical Carleton E. Watkins was a 19th century photographer based in San Francisco who made his name documenting the rapid growth of the American West. His majestic photos of the Yosemite Valley, in Mariposa County, California, are said to have influenced Abraham Lincoln's 1864 Yosemite Land Grant - the first act of Congress to designate federal land for public use. It is often referred to as "the birth of the national parks system." Watkins was the oldest of eight children, born to a carpenter and an innkeeper in Oneonta, New York, on November 11, 1929. He moved west with childhood friend Collis Huntington during the Gold Rush in 1851. He later took a job in San Francisco working next door to daguerreotypist Robert H. Vance, who eventually hired Watkins and taught him the basics of photography. Watkins probably began his photography career next year, in 1855, when he photographed the mines at New Idrea and New Almaden, as well as Mission Santa Clara. Watkins first appeared in the San Francisco directory in 1861, listed as a daguerrean operator at 425 Montgomery Street. It was also the year that he first travelled to Yosemite to photograph it – a difficult undertaking that required nearly two thousand pounds of equipment, including at least a dozen mules, flammable chemicals, a stereoscopic camera, an oversize mammoth-plate camera, and 18 x 22 inch glass plates. On the strength of this work, Watkins was hired by the California State Geological Survey from 1865-1866 to further document the Yosemite region. These photographs of Yosemite (which exposed many Easterners to previously-unseen parts of the West) made Watkins famous, and in 1867 he opened his lavish Yo Semite Art Gallery in San Francisco. He also travelled to the Pacific Northwest, photographing Oregon, British Columbia, and the Columbia River – the first photographs ever taken of the region. Despite his remarkable success as a photographer and his many wealthy patrons, Watkins was a poor businessman and, following the financial panic of 1873, lost his gallery, as well as his photographic negatives, to J.J. Cook, Isaiah W. Taber, and Thomas H. Boyd. Taber then began issuing prints of Watkins images with his name attached and without credit to Watkins. Watkins's "New Series" of photographs were created to replace some of the images he lost. In 1876, Watkins travelled to Virginia City, Nevada to visit the Comstock Lode, and it is here that he is rumored to have met his future wife, Frances Sneed, who first became his assistant. In 1879, on his 50th birthday, Watkins married Sneed, who was 22 at the time. They had two children, named Julia and Collis. In 1894, Watkins began to experience health problems, and was unable complete a photographic commission. He also began to experience vision loss, and by 1903 was almost completely blind. In 1906, while in the process of negotiating the sale and transfer of his photographic archive (including his mammoth glass plate negatives) to Stanford University, the 1906 earthquake, and subsequent fire, struck. Watkins's studio was lost. When his poor health made it difficult for his family to care for him, he was placed in the Napa State Hospital for the Insane. Of Watkins's death, on June 23, 1916, Peter Palmquist writes: "He is thought to have been buried in the hospital graveyard, but no tombstone marks his grave." Information taken from: Naef, Weston and Christine Hult-Lewis. Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs. Getty Publications, 2011. Palmquist, Peter E. Carleton E. Watkins: Photographer of the American West. University of New Mexico Press, 1983. Whitney, JD. "A Watkins Chronology." California History. Vol. 57 No. 3, Fall (1978): 264. The Photographs of Carleton Watkins. Accessed November 23, 2018. www.carletonwatkins.org. Finding aid to the Carleton E. PC RM Watkins 2 Watkins photograph collection PC RM Watkins "Carleton Watkins." The J. Paul Getty Museum. Accessed November 23, 2018. http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1953/carleton-watkins-american-1829-1916/ Conditions Governing Access Collection is open for research. Conditions Governing Use Materials in this collection are in the public domain in the United States. Permission to publish or reproduce is not required. Immediate Source of Acquisition Collection is comprised of multiple donations from various donors. Please see collection files for more information. Preferred Citation [Identification of item, date]; Carleton E. Watkins photograph collection, PC-RM-Watkins; [box number, folder number]; California Historical Society. Scope and Content The collection consists of 176 albumen mammoth prints (including 2 panoramas – one of San Francisco and one of Yosemite), 137 photographic prints (including 6 cyanotypes), 4 photograph albums, 409 complete stereographs, 10 partial stereographs, and 67 glass stereographs. The collection also includes 101 boudoir cards, 74 cabinet cards, and 33 cartes-de-visite. The bulk of photographs taken depict the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove, and were taken at various points between 1861 and 1881. The collection includes photographs of various mining operations, including Las Mariposas Mining Estate, as well as the New Idria and New Almaden mines. There are also photographs documenting railway building and industry, including images of the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads, and of the Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company. Watkins travelled extensively around the West, documenting Arizona, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, as well as various California counties across the state. He also photographed plants and flowers native to California and the Southwest, as well as natural features such as Mount Shasta and the geysers in Sonoma County. There are numerous photos of California missions from throughout the state. There are photographs of the homes of prominent Californians, such as the Thurlow Lodge album (Governor of California Milton Latham's home), and photographs of the homes of bankers Darius O. Mills and William C. Ralston, among others. The collection also includes images of the Sierra Madre Villa in Pasadena and the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey. The cabinet cards and cartes-de-visite feature portraits of artists, writers, and professors such as Louis Agassiz, Galen Clark, Albert Bierstadt, and William Cullen Bryant. There are also portraits of Japanese businessmen Tomomi Iwakura and Kaikichi M. Hirose. There are photographs of architectural plans, artwork held by local museums, and an album photos of drawings by Virgil Williams. There is a great depth and breadth of images of San Francisco, Watkins's home for much of his life. These include images of Alcatraz Island and the Farallon Islands, as well as views of the city taken from various vantage points. There are photographs of major intersections and important buildings, like the Palace Hotel and the Bank of California. There are also photographs of local industry, such as the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the San Francisco Woolen Factory, as well as of photos of attractions like Woodward's Gardens. The collection also includes two photographs of Carleton Watkins taken by other photographers. Arrangement The collection is arranged by format into eight series and, from there, are organized into subseries according to subject (usually location). Materials in each subseries are arranged chronologically. Because Watkins photographed Yosemite at multiple times, on different trips, these photographs are organized according to the "CEW" (for Carleton E. Watkins) negative numbers assigned by Weston
Load more

Recommended publications
  • LITERARY NONFICTION and the NATIONAL PARK MOVEMENT, 1864-PRESENT Lindsay Dunne
    Abstract Title of Dissertation: DEFINING PLACES: LITERARY NONFICTION AND THE NATIONAL PARK MOVEMENT, 1864-PRESENT Lindsay Dunne Jacoby, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation directed by: Professor Jeanne Fahnestock and Professor Scott Wible Department of English The canon of American “Nature writing” has long been recognized for its influence on environmental policy, but the role of specific works in shaping environmental discourse and altering material circumstances has yet to be fully understood, especially from a rhetorical perspective. In response, this dissertation explores how works of Nature writing have functioned as persuasive arguments of definition within the National Park movement. It analyzes how literary nonfiction texts promoted a public understanding of specific landscapes and redefined them as worthy of preservation. The idea of rhetorical ecology underlies this analysis: rather than relying on the commonplace idea that a single author writing a single text can influence an environmental policy, the dissertation traces how a work of literary nonfiction operates within a complex system of texts, writers, readers, institutions, objects, and history. The four main case studies demonstrate how new definitions of place have emerged through works of literary nonfiction, each acting in relationship to a larger campaign that led to the preservation of an American landscape as a National Park: Yosemite, Great Smoky Mountains, Everglades, and Voyageurs. In these landmark campaigns, a prominent work of Nature writing, by a prominent author like John Muir, Horace Kephart, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and Sigurd Olson, built upon and contributed to a definitional discourse that enabled people to see a specific landscape differently than it had been seen before.
    [Show full text]
  • Photography and America's National Parks
    Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916). Yo-wi-ye or Nevada Falls, 1861. Albumen silver print. George Eastman Museum. Gift of Alden Scott Boyer. Photography and America’s National Parks In celebration of the 100th Eadweard Muybridge as well as anniversary of the formation of modernist and contemporary the National Park Service, the photographers like Ansel Adams Participation Fee: $40,000 + George Eastman Museum presents and Binh Dahn. The exhibition Round trip shipping and Insurance Photography and America’s proceeds by surveying the role Booking Period: 12 Weeks National Parks, an exhibition that photography has played in the highlights photography’s role in land conservation movement. Contents: Approximately 150 the development of America’s The final section includes works photographs National Parks. For more than 150 by photographers who revisit Size: 350 linear feet (approx) years, photographs of these vast the place where established spaces have helped us view and views were made in order to Available: Fall 2016 understand these landscapes, demonstrate changes in the from Yosemite to the most recent land and the ways in which our addition of Pinnacles National perception of it has been affected. Park. Photography and America’s Photography and America’s National Parks will bring together National Parks features images of photographs from the George many of the current 59 national Eastman Museum’s collection parks. It begins by tracing the with works from other sources to photographic history of Yosemite, illuminate this history, delighting exploring historic works by viewers with historical information nineteenth-century photographers and beautiful photographs. such as Carleton Watkins and Contact: Traveling Exhibitions Coordinator • (585) 271-3361 ext.
    [Show full text]
  • Bulletin Gary F
    California State Library Foundation Number 98 2010 California State Library Foundation Number 98 2010 EDITOR Bulletin Gary F. Kurutz 2 � � � � � � � � Stitching the Picture Together: EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Kathleen Correia A Profile of Vincent Beiderbecke By M. Patricia Morris COPY EDITOR M. Patricia Morris 12� � � � � � � My Part of 100 Years of California County Library History BOARD OF DIRECTORS By Gary E. Strong Kenneth B. Noack, Jr. President 18� � � � � � � Daguerreotyping John Rollin Ridge, George Basye Vice-President the First Native American Novelist Thomas E. Vinson By Gary F. Kurutz Treasurer Donald J. Hagerty 24� � � � � � � New Legislator Profiles: Assembly Members Secretary Alyson Huber and Paul Fong Stacey Aldrich By Mimi Morris State Librarian of California 27� � � � � � � Foundation Notes Robert Dickover JoAnn Levy Allan Forbes Sue T. Noack Foundation Board Meets in Woodland Herbert Hunn Marilyn Snider JoAnn Levy & Philip Isenberg Elected to Board Phillip L. Isenberg Thomas W. Stallard Mead B. Kibbey Sandra Swafford State Library Muybridge Images in Traveling Exhibition Early Abraham Lincoln Document Discovered Gary F. Kurutz Julia Schaw Foundation Announces New Publication: The Final Days Executive Director Administrative Assistant of Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Shelley Ford Bookkeeper 32� � � � � � � Contributors List The California State Library Foundation Bulletin is Note: Recent issues of The Bulletin, including this one, may be viewed published when we are able. © 2004-2010. in full color on our website at www.cslfdn.org. Opinions of the authors are their own and do not Front Cover: This striking 1897 La Fiesta de Los Angeles poster was necessarily reflect the opinions of their institutions, the California State Library or the Foundation.
    [Show full text]
  • Carleton E. Watkins. the Grizzy Giant. Ca. 1870. Smithsonian American Art Museum
    Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/octo/article-pdf/doi/10.1162/0162287041886476/1751133/0162287041886476.pdf by guest on 30 September 2021 Carleton E. Watkins. The Grizzy Giant. ca. 1870. Smithsonian American Art Museum. Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment. They Might Be Giants: Carleton Watkins, Galen Clark, and the Big Tree* Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/octo/article-pdf/doi/10.1162/0162287041886476/1751133/0162287041886476.pdf by guest on 30 September 2021 ELIZABETH HUTCHINSON To mid-nineteenth-century Americans, California was well-known as the origin of many a “tall tale.” “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” Mark Twain’s classic 1865 fable about a grizzled old-timer whose acrobatic amphibian— “Dan’l Webster”—did not measure up in the final competition, captures the larger-than-life spirit that surrounded the men and women living in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.1 Calaveras County was already known as the home of California’s most legendary heroes: the giant sequoia trees. After their “discovery” by European Americans in 1855, the mammoth trees became the immediate subject of national attention. The gigantic scale of these trees, and the implication of age that went with their height, captured the country’s imagination. The summer that Twain published his Californian myth, Carleton Watkins ventured into the area for the third time to make photographs of these giants that would convey their almost unreal greatness. He made several photographs of the “Grizzly Giant,” then the largest and oldest known tree in the United States.
    [Show full text]
  • Preservation Or Conservation: Landscape Photography’S Role in Idealizing and Destroying the American Wilderness
    Trinity College Trinity College Digital Repository Trinity Publications (Newspapers, Yearbooks, The First-Year Papers (2010 - present) Catalogs, etc.) 2014 Preservation or Conservation: Landscape Photography’s Role in Idealizing and Destroying the American Wilderness Sarah Messenger Trinity College, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/fypapers Part of the Photography Commons Recommended Citation Messenger, Sarah, "Preservation or Conservation: Landscape Photography’s Role in Idealizing and Destroying the American Wilderness". The First-Year Papers (2010 - present) (2014). Trinity College Digital Repository, Hartford, CT. https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/fypapers/54 Preservation or Conservation 1 Preservation or Conservation: Landscape Photography’s Role in Idealizing and Destroying the American Wilderness Sarah Messenger Landscape photography hinders conservation by equating the value of landscape with aesthetic beauty and spectacle. While landscape photography often garners support for the creation and appreciation of national parks, it idealizes pristine and untouched wilderness. Conservation is not about preserving vast swaths of untamed land while destroying other areas. Ultimately, conservation is about developing sustainable agriculture and land-use techniques, which are far less photogenic. Landscape photography is all about aesthetic. We, as viewers, are drawn to scenes of “wilderness,” untamed, uncivilized, pristine areas. The idealization of wilderness is in part due to the works of two great landscape photographers, Ansel Adams and Carleton Watkins. Ansel Adams may be the best known landscape photographer of the twentieth century. However, he is especially guilty of popularizing a wilderness aesthetic through his depictions of the sublime. The sublime in photography is categorized as the depiction of formless and uplifting shapes that produce feelings of awe and terror (Giblett, “American Wilderness” 69-70).
    [Show full text]
  • Carleton E. Watkins Mammoth Plate Photographs of Comstock Mining, Yosemite, San Francisco, Los Angeles County, and the American West Photcl Watkins 39-98
    http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8dj5nn1 No online items Carleton E. Watkins Mammoth Plate Photographs of Comstock Mining, Yosemite, San Francisco, Los Angeles County, and the American West photCL Watkins 39-98 Suzanne Oatey The Huntington Library November 2019 1151 Oxford Road San Marino, California 91108 [email protected] URL: http://www.huntington.org photCL Watkins 39-98 1 Contributing Institution: The Huntington Library. Photo Archives Title: Carleton E. Watkins Mammoth Plate Photographs of Comstock Mining, Yosemite, San Francisco, Los Angeles County, and the American West Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916 Identifier/Call Number: photCL Watkins 39-98 Physical Description: 11 Linear Feet(9 boxes) Physical Description: 61 Photographic Prints: mammoth plate, albumen: size of prints varies, approximately 40 x 53 cm. (15 3/4 x 20 3/4 in.) Date (inclusive): 1861-1880 Abstract: A collection of 61 mammoth plate photographs by American photographer Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916), of various subjects in the American West, 1861-1880. The photographs include mines and mills in the Comstock district, Nevada; Yosemite Valley; Los Angeles County ranches and agriculture; San Francisco's maritime commerce and stately residences; Salt Lake City, Utah; and assorted landscape and coastal views. Language of Material: Materials are in English. Conditions Governing Access Open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. Due to the fragility of the prints, access is granted only by permission of the Curator of Photography. For more information, contact Reader Services. Conditions Governing Use The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities.
    [Show full text]
  • In Nature's Temple: Early California Art and Ecology—William Keith
    ABOUT USF DESTINATIONS GATEWAYS SEARCH Current Exhibition Sign up to receive our email newsletter with Exhibition Calendar updates on exhibitions and events: Previous Shows Information NEWSLETTER Gallery Map (pdf) Rooftop Sculpture Terrace In Nature's Temple: Early California Art and Ecology William Keith, Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins and John Muir August 26–December 13, 2013 Curated by Thomas Lucas, SJ, Director Emeritus Events “In Nature’s Temple: Early California Art & Ecology” presents the ideas of Conversation with Curator Thomas John Muir alongside the works of Lucas, SJ and Writer, Historian and USF three California art icons—painter Alumnus Kevin Starr William Keith and photographers Monday, October 7, 2:30-3:30, McLaren 250 Carleton Watkins and Eadweard Reception to follow in the Gallery Muybridge—to examine Yosemite’s place in the American art and Guided Tours, Thursdays at noon: environmental movements. September 5, 19, October 3, 17, 24, November 7, 21, December 5 After recovering from an eye injury caused while working in a September Wisconsin factory, John Muir Thursday, September 12, noon-1 p.m. – fulfilled his dream to move west, Thacher Thursdays: Creature Comforts – quickly becoming the proto- Animal Habitats created by USF fine arts evangelist of the nature students conservation movements. He visited Yosemite Valley for the first time in Thursday, September 26, noon-1 p.m. – 1868, writing, “It is by far the Final Thursday Chamber Music with USF’s grandest of all the special temples Chamber Ensemble class of Nature I was ever permitted to enter.” Living in the valley for Thursday, September 26, 5:30-6:30 p.m., extended periods of time, he Maraschi Room, Fromm Hall – “Earthly encountered landscape painter Hermeneutics: Interpretation from the William Keith and inventor- Ground Up” by Brian Treanor, Loyola photographers Carleton Watkins Marymount University, Plenary Session for and Eadweard Muybridge.
    [Show full text]
  • Lewis and Nathan Clark and the Evolution of Sierra Club Photography, 1924-1961
    University of Nevada, Reno Activity and Activism: Lewis and Nathan Clark and the Evolution of Sierra Club Photography, 1924-1961 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History by Kimberly J. Roberts Dr. C. Elizabeth Raymond, Thesis Advisor May 2013 Copyright by Kimberly J. Roberts 2013 All Rights Reserved THE GRADUATE SCHOOL We recommend that the thesis prepared under our supervision by KIMBERLY J. ROBERTS entitled Activity and Activism: Lewis and Nathan Clark and the Evolution of Sierra Club Photography, 1924-1961 be accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS C. Elizabeth Raymond, Advisor William D. Rowley , Committee Member Bruce T. Moran, Committee Member Peter Goin, Graduate School Representative Marsha H. Read, Ph. D., Dean, Graduate School May, 2013 i Abstract Using the photography of Sierra Club members Lewis and Nathan Clark, this thesis explores the relationship between image and landscape in the rise of outdoor recreation in early and mid twentieth century America. Focusing on the role of photography in the construction, articulation, and representation of landscape, I trace two concurrent shifts in Sierra Club history. First, I examine how the Sierra Club members, who originally used images to write and record their own history, began to deploy those images as part of public awareness campaigns. Second, I analyze how the Sierra Club shifted from a social club using landscape as a hub for recreational activity to a political club using notions of landscape to campaign for environmental causes. By analyzing how the Sierra Club published and disseminated a set of cultural values through the medium of photography and by connecting these values to the construction of a physical landscape, this thesis examines the co-evolution of image, activity, and place as a form of social practice shared within a community and broadcast outward.
    [Show full text]
  • With Original Albumen Photographs 40
    William Reese Company Rare Books, Americana, Literature & Pictorial Americana 409 Temple Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511 203 / 789 · 8081 fax: 203 / 865 · 7653 e-mail: [email protected] web: www.williamreesecompany.com Bulletin 44: Photography A Classic of Western Photography 1. Adams, Ansel E., and Mary H. Austin: TAOS PUEBLO. San Francisco. 1930. [6] preliminary pages followed by [14]pp. of text and twelve original mounted photographs, printed on Dessonville paper by Ansel Adams, various sizes to 9 x 6½ inches, each with a corresponding caption leaf. Large folio. Publisher’s half tan morocco and cloth, spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers. Very good. From an edition limited to 108 copies (this copy is number 64) signed by Mary Austin and Ansel Adams. Possibly the most famous modern photographic work on the West, Taos Pueblo was a collaboration between the young photographer, Ansel Adams, and one of the most evocative writers on the Southwest, Mary Austin. An elegant design by the Grabhorn Press provides a counterpoint to Adams’ photo- graphs of the adobe Pueblo. The book distilled the romance and naturalism that many Americans found in the Indian pueblos of New Mexico, and defined the style that was to make Adams the most popular photographer of the American West. $85,000. An Early Boston African-American Daguerreotype 2. [African-American Photographica]: [PORTRAIT OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN, ELIZA MIDDLETON, CIRCA 1847]. Boston. [ca. 1847]. Ninth-plate daguerreotype, 2 x 2½ inches. Brass mat, framed under glass in contemporary leather case. Slight silvering of the surface area, spine of case perished.
    [Show full text]
  • Triumpofhelios P3.Pdf
    Vv Photographic Treasures of the California State Library Vv JBIOGRAPHIES OF PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHERSj By Heather Masqueda Bradley & Thomas Houseworth & Company Eadweard J. Rulofson (1859-1880) Muybridge (1830-1904) (1863-1875) Th omas Houseworth (1828-1915), with George S. Born Edward James Muggeridge, the photographer Henry W. Bradley (1813- Lawrence (dates unknown), sailed from New York City moved from London to the United States in 1851 as 1891) and William H. to San Francisco in 1849. Th ey were headed for Cali- a commission merchant on the eastern coast. Until Rulofson (1826-1878) joined fornia, where they would work as miners and jewelers 1867—when he moved to San Francisco for good—he forces in 1863, buying out the before settling as merchants of a San Francisco optical was forced to return to England, to nurse a severe head portrait gallery of daguerreotyp- shop. In 1859 Lawrence and Houseworth began selling injury he received after being thrown from a stagecoach. ist Robert Vance to establish stereographs from their store, and displayed them in At the age of thirty-seven, Eadweard Muybridge created the photographic art gallery of Bradley & Rulofson. the windows to attract more customers. Th ey worked a name for himself, literally, as we know him today. He Th e duo worked well together; Rulofson completed with local photographers to compile a diverse collection began his career as a commercial photographer, and the managerial operations, and Bradley the curatorial of images documenting California’s major landmarks: commonly worked under the pseudonym “Helios,” the tasks. Th eir strong advertising campaign proved suc- settlements, boom towns, placer and hydraulic mining Greek God of the sun.
    [Show full text]
  • Life: a Forest for the People John Lusk Hathaway East Tennessee State University
    East Tennessee State University Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Student Works 5-2012 wild|life: A Forest for the People John Lusk Hathaway East Tennessee State University Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.etsu.edu/etd Part of the Fine Arts Commons Recommended Citation Hathaway, John Lusk, "wild|life: A Forest for the People" (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1430. https://dc.etsu.edu/ etd/1430 This Thesis - Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Works at Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. wild|life A Forest for the People ___________________________ A thesis presented to the faculty of the department of Art and Design East Tennessee State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art __________________________ by John Lusk Hathaway III May 2012 ____________________ Mike Smith, Committee Chair Catherine Murray Mira Gerard Singh Keywords: photography, color, national forest, landscape, nature, beauty, environment ABSTRACT wild|life A forest for the People by John Lusk Hathaway III The photographer discusses the work in wild|life A forest for the people, his Master of Fine Art exhibition held at the Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee from March 12 through March 23, 2012. The exhibition consists of 24 large-scale color archival Inkjet prints representing a large body of work that examines the human experience through viewing public and private land and land use within or tangential to the Cherokee National Forest.
    [Show full text]
  • Carleton E. Watkins, Photographer: 1829-1916
    Syracuse University SURFACE The Courier Libraries Winter 1978 Carleton E. Watkins, Photographer: 1829-1916 Amy S. Doherty Follow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/libassoc Part of the American Studies Commons, and the History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons Recommended Citation Doherty, Amy S. "Carleton E. Watkins, Photographer: 1829-1916." The Courier 15.4 (1978): 3-20. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Libraries at SURFACE. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Courier by an authorized administrator of SURFACE. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ISSN 0011-0418 THE LOWER YOSEMITE FALLS From a Carleton E. Watkins album at Syracuse University THE COURIER SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATES Volume XV, Number 4, 1978 Table ofContents Winter 1978 Page Carleton E. Watkins, Photographer: 1829-1916 by Amy S. Doherty 3 Notes from a Cartoonist by Edward D. Kuekes 21 Library Associates: 1968-1978 Transition and Renewal by Elizabeth Mozley 28 News of the Library and Library Associates 33 Carleton E. Watkins, Photographer: 1829-1916 by Amy S. Doherty When, on August 19, 1839, Francois Dominique Arago announced the details of an invention by Louis Daguerre, called the daguerrotype, before a joint meeting of the Academie des Sciences and the Academie des Beaux-Arts at the Institut de France, photography was officially born. I At this time Carleton E. Watkins was ten years old, living in Oneonta, New York, the youngest of five children. His father was an innkeeper of Scottish extraction. Other than these bare facts, very little appears to be known of the early days of Watkins' life, except that he developed a friendship that was to be lifelong with Collis P., Huntington, financier and f'ntrepreneur, who, with four other men, developed and built the Southern Pacific Railroad.
    [Show full text]