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Title
[Cape Horn on the Lower Columbia] (2 views)
Creator
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued
[1867]
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.
View 1 (2005-0698). View of the Columbia River (left), cliffs (right), rail fence and log cabin in foreground -- view 2 (2005-0699). View of two small boats each with with a rolled up sail on the shore of the Columbia River. Man in the boat at the right, boxes on the beach next to the boat; cliffs along river at right in the distance.
Restricted original.
Also have negatives: no. 9,604 (70 mm and 4 x 5 in. color transparency); no. 9392 ( (4 x 5 in.) b/w and color transparency, 70 mm.).
Cape Horn on Lower Columbia River, one of five sites named Cape Horn on Columbia River.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
2 photographic prints mounted on linen : albumen ; 15 1/8 x 20 1/2 in. on mount 16 3/4 x 22 in.
Identifier
(C)001386826CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-0107
Language
English
Subject
Rivers--Oregon
Rivers--Washington (State)
Log cabins--Washington (State)
Sailboats--Washington (State)
Lower Columbia River (Or. and Wash.)--Photographs
Cape Horn (Wash.)--Photographs
Oregon--Photographs
Washington (State)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Landscape photographs
Place
Oregon
Washington (State)
Lower Columbia River (Or. and Wash.)
Cape Horn (Wash.)

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