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Title
[Mammoth Grove Hotel, Calaveras Big Trees Grove], no. 989
Creator
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Date Created and/or Issued
[ca. 1865]
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.
2005-0688.
View of the wood-frame two story building with a covered porch, balcony above, full-length windows and windows in the attic. Two horse-drawn carriages in front, people standing on the porch, picket fence in foreground at right.
Restricted original.
Negative, no. 4,170 (4 x 5 in., 70 mm) and color transparency.
Type
image
Format
Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent
1 photographic print mounted on linen : albumen ; 16 x 21 3/8 in. on mount 17 3/8 x 22 5/8 in.
Identifier
(C)001386829CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-0111
Language
English
Subject
Hotels--California--Calaveras Big Trees State Park
Carriages & coaches--California--Calaveras Big Trees State Park
Calaveras County (Calif.)--Photographs
Calaveras Big Trees State Park (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Mammoth plates
Albumen prints
Place
California
Calaveras Big Trees State Park
Calaveras County (Calif.)
Calaveras Big Trees State Park (Calif.)

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