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Taking Shasta, Discovering Glaciers
Note: Many images from University of California collections, such as the Bancroft Library and the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, are made web-published by the collecting institutions at significantly lower quality than images those institutions sell for print publication. Therefore, images of pictures in UC collections often look blurry or faded when the actual object is not.
Engraving made from Carleton Watkins’s 1865 picture of Half Dome as reproduced the California Geological Survey’s “Geology, Vol. 1,” 1865.Carleton Watkins, Half Dome, 1865. Collection of Stanford University Libraries.
Carleton Watkins, At Lassen’s Butte [today’s Mount Lassen], Siskiyou County, Calif., 1870. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington.Carleton Watkins, Ash Slopes on Lassen’s Butte [today’s Mount Lassen], 1870. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Carleton Watkins, At Lassen’s Butte [today’s Mount Lassen], 1870. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Carleton Watkins, Lassen’s Butte [today’s Mount Lassen], 1870. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Carleton Watkins, Mud volcano in hot springs near Lassen’s Butte [today’s Mount Lassen], 1870. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Carleton Watkins, Black Butte from Sisson’s, 1870. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Carleton Watkins, Looking out the left of the crater, Shasta, 1870. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Carleton Watkins, Mount Shasta Summit, 1870. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Carleton Watkins, Whitney Glacier, Mount Shasta, 1870. Collection of the National Archives and Records Administration, Washington.Carleton Watkins, Mount Shasta, Whitney Glacier, looking down, 1870. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Carleton Watkins, Summit of Shasta from Shastina with Whitney Glacier, 1870. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Carleton Watkins, Shasta from Sheep Rocks, 1870. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Carleton Watkins, Shasta from the East Side, ca. 1870. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Carleton Watkins, Summit of Shasta, 1870. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Julia Margaret Cameron, Thomas Carlyle, 1867. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Carleton Watkins, Mount Shasta, ca. 1867-70. Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington.Carleton Watkins, Cathedral Spires, 1865-66. Collection of the Stanford University Libraries.Author photograph, two Carleton Watkinses as installed in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s home, Concord, Mass.