Chapter 26 images

The New Industrial Agriculture Near Bakersfield, California

Note: Few of Carleton Watkins’s pictures of Kern County agriculture have been professionally shot by the institutions that hold them. Many of the images here are from my notes (hence the poor quality).

1 CEW, View on the Calloway Canal, near Poso Creek, Kern County (A&B), ca. 1887-88, HEH & JPGM 1500.jpg
Carleton Watkins, digitally constructed panorama of View on the Calloway Canal, near Poso Creek, Kern County (A&B), ca. 1887-88. Collection of the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Calif.
1a CEW, San Emigdio Ranch, ca. 1887-88, LOC 1500
Carleton Watkins, San Emigdio Ranch, ca. 1887-88. Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington.
2 CEW, View on the Calloway Canal, ca. 1887-88, HEH.jpg
Carleton Watkins, View on the Calloway Canal, ca. 1887-88. Collection of the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.
3 CEW, [Stockton Ranch], ca. 1887-88, LOC 1500
Carleton Watkins, [Stockton Ranch], ca. 1887-88. Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington.
4 CEW, Alameda Farm, ca. 1887-88, unidentified collex 1500
Carleton Watkins, Alameda Farm, ca. 1887-88.
5 CEW, Buena Vista Ranch, ca. 1887-88, KCM 1500
Carleton Watkins, Buena Vista Ranch, ca. 1887-88. Collection of the Kern County Museum, Bakersfield, Calif.
6 CEW, Haying at Buena Vista Farm, ca. 1886-88, HEH 1500
Carleton Watkins, Haying at Buena Vista Farm, ca. 1886-88. Collection of the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.
7 CEW, McMillen Ranch, ca. 1887-88, KCM 1500
Carleton Watkins, McMillen Ranch, ca. 1887-88. Collection of the Kern County Museum, Bakersfield, Calif.
7a CEW, Jackson Ranch, 1887-89, KCM
Carleton Watkins, Jackson Ranch, ca. 1887-89.  Collection of the Kern County Museum, Bakersfield, Calif.
8 Frederic Church, West Rock, New Haven or Haying Near New Haven, 1849, NBMAA
Frederic Church, West Rock, New Haven or Haying Near New Haven, 1849. Collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Conn.
9 Engraving after Church, West Rock, New Haven, ca. 1873, YUAG 1500.jpg
Engraving after Frederic Church’s West Rock, New Haven, ca. 1873. Collection of the Yale University Art Gallery.
10 Jasper Cropsey, American Harvesting, 1851, IU.jpg
Jasper Cropsey, American Harvesting, 1851. Collection of the Eskenazi Art Museum, Indiana University.
11 William Keith, Approaching Storm, 1880, Met 1500
William Keith, Approaching Storm, 1880. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
12 CEW, Kern Island Dairy, ca. 1887-88, unidentified collex 1500
Carleton Watkins, Kern Island Dairy, ca. 1887-88.
13 CEW, Mountain View Dairy, ca. 1887-88, KCM 1500
Mountain View Dairy, ca. 1887-88. Collection of the Kern County Museum, Bakersfield, Calif.
14 CEW, McClung Ranch, ca. 1887-88, KCM 1500
Carleton Watkins, McClung Ranch, ca. 1887-88. Collection of the Kern County Museum, Bakersfield, Calif.
15 CEW, McClung Ranch, ca. 1887-88, unidentified collex 1500
Carleton Watkins, McClung Ranch, ca. 1887-88.
15a CEW, Bakersfield, ca. 1887-88, unidentified collection 1500.jpg
Carleton Watkins, Bakersfield, ca. 1887-88.
16 CEW, Bakersfield, ca. 1887-88, unidentified collection 1500
Carleton Watkins, Bakersfield, ca. 1887-88.
17 CEW, Kern County marketing display, unknown location, ca. 1887-89, unidentified collection 1500
Carleton Watkins, Kern County marketing display, unknown location, ca. 1887-89.
18 CEW, Kern County Exhibit at the 1889 Mechanics' Institute Industrial Fair, 1889, HEH.jpg
Carleton Watkins, Kern County Exhibit at the 1889 Mechanics’ Institute Industrial Fair, 1889. Collection of the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.