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Title: [Laurel tree], no. 302
Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1865 and 1872]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Restricted original.
Use of original by permission of the Manager of the California History Room.
Description: Attributed to Carleton Watkins - reasonably certain Library's collection of mammoth prints printed from negatives by Watkins.
Large tree with chair/swing hanging from branch, house in background.
2010-0655.
Also have negative: no. 9551 (70 mm).
Restricted original.
Located on Rancho San Mateo, owned by William Davis Merry Howard in 1850's. Rancho land eventually included in towns of San Mateo, Hillsborough and Burlingame.
Type: image
Format: Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on linen : albumen ; 15 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. on mount 16 1/4 x 21 in.
Identifier: (C)001455965CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Laurel trees--California--San Mateo County
Houses--California--San Mateo County
Swings--California--San Mateo County
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place: California
San Mateo County

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