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The Boom Years
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.
Carleton Watkins, Weapons of the Argonauts, ca. 1866-72. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Carleton Watkins, Rudyard (English) Reservoir, Central Dam, Nevada County, ca. 1871. Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.Carleton Watkins, English Dam (Middle), Nevada County, Calif., ca. 1871-79. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Carleton Watkins, Magenta Flume, Nevada County, Calif., ca. 1871. Collection of the Stanford University Libraries.Carleton Watkins, Malakoff Diggins, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County, ca. 1871. Collection of the Stanford University Libraries.Carleton Watkins, Malakoff Diggins, near North Bloomfield, Nevada County, ca 1871. Collection of the Stanford University Libraries.Carleton Watkins, Grand Hotel, San Francisco, ca. 1860s-1870s. Collection of the California State Library, Sacramento.Invitation to the opening of Watkins’s Yosemite Art Gallery. Private collection via carletonwatkins.org.William Keith, Mount Hood from Sandy River, ca. 1870-80, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park, Woodstock, Vt.William Keith, Donner Lake, 1878-79, St. Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga, Calif.Carleton Watkins, Donner Lake, Central Pacific Railroad, Nevada County, ca. 1876. Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.William Keith, Headwaters of the Merced, 1876. Collection of the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University.Carleton Watkins, Sentinel Rock, Echo Canyon, Utah Territory, 1873-74, Collection of the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.Andrew J. Russell, Serrated rocks or Devil’s Slide (near view) — Weber Cañon, Utah, 1868. Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington.Andrew J. Russell, Devil’s shoot [sic] from stone quarry, Weber Canon, ca. 1868. Collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.Timothy O’Sullivan, Devil’s Slide, Utah Territory, 1869. Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington.Timothy O’Sullivan, Devil’s Slide, Utah, 1869. Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington.Charles R. Savage, View of Devil’s Slide from Union Pacific railroad, ca. 1870. Collection of the Brigham Young University Library.Eadweard Muybridge, Devil’s Slide, Upper Weber Kanyon [sic], from the railroad, looking south, not dated. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.William Henry Jackson, Devil’s Slide, 1880. Collection of the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.Carleton Watkins, Devil’s Slide, Weber Canyon, Utah Territory, 1873. Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.Carleton Watkins, Sugar Loaf Island and Seal Rocks, Farallon Islands, ca. 1872. Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.