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Creating Western Culture at Black Point
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, Oso House, Bear Valley, Calif., 1860. Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.Carleton Watkins, Oso House, Bear Valley, Calif. (detail showing John C. Fremont sitting inside the stagecoach at left), 1860. Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.Carleton Watkins, Railroad Bridge Looking Down the Mountain, 1860. Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.Carleton Watkins, Benton Mills, 1860. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Carleton Watkins, Josephine and Pine Tree Mines, Las Mariposas, 1860. Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.Carleton Watkins, View from Mount Josephine, Las Mariposas, 1860. Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.Charles L. Weed, Poverty Bar, Middle Fork, American River, 1858. Collection of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.Carleton Watkins, Jessie Benton Fremont at Black Point, ca. 1860-61. Collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.Carleton Watkins, Black Point View, ca. 1860-61. Collection of the Society of California Pioneers, San Francisco via carletonwatkins.org.Carleton Watkins, Mrs. Fremont’s Boys, ca. 1860-61. Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, via carletonwatkins.org.Carleton Watkins, Mrs. Fremont’s Study, Black Point, San Francisco, ca. 1860-61. Collection of the San Francisco Public Library, via carletonwatkins.org.Carleton Watkins, Mrs. Fremont’s Study [with stereograph viewer on desk], ca. 1860-61. Collection of the Society of California Pioneers, via carletonwatkins.org.