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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).
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.Carleton Watkins, San Emigdio Ranch, ca. 1887-88. Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington.Carleton Watkins, View on the Calloway Canal, ca. 1887-88. Collection of the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.Carleton Watkins, [Stockton Ranch], ca. 1887-88. Collection of the Library of Congress, Washington.Carleton Watkins, Alameda Farm, ca. 1887-88.Carleton Watkins, Buena Vista Ranch, ca. 1887-88. Collection of the Kern County Museum, Bakersfield, Calif.Carleton Watkins, Haying at Buena Vista Farm, ca. 1886-88. Collection of the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.Carleton Watkins, McMillen Ranch, ca. 1887-88. Collection of the Kern County Museum, Bakersfield, Calif.Carleton Watkins, Jackson Ranch, ca. 1887-89. Collection of the Kern County Museum, Bakersfield, Calif.Frederic Church, West Rock, New Haven or Haying Near New Haven, 1849. Collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Conn.Engraving after Frederic Church’s West Rock, New Haven, ca. 1873. Collection of the Yale University Art Gallery.Jasper Cropsey, American Harvesting, 1851. Collection of the Eskenazi Art Museum, Indiana University.William Keith, Approaching Storm, 1880. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Carleton Watkins, Kern Island Dairy, ca. 1887-88.Mountain View Dairy, ca. 1887-88. Collection of the Kern County Museum, Bakersfield, Calif.Carleton Watkins, McClung Ranch, ca. 1887-88. Collection of the Kern County Museum, Bakersfield, Calif.Carleton Watkins, McClung Ranch, ca. 1887-88.Carleton Watkins, Bakersfield, ca. 1887-88.Carleton Watkins, Bakersfield, ca. 1887-88.Carleton Watkins, Kern County marketing display, unknown location, ca. 1887-89.Carleton Watkins, Kern County Exhibit at the 1889 Mechanics’ Institute Industrial Fair, 1889. Collection of the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.