Albumen Photograph of California coastline in 1880's, attributed to Carleton E. Watkins (November 11, 1829 June 23, 1916) was a noted 19th century California photographer.Carleton Emmons Watkins was born in Oneonta, upstate New York. He went to San Francisco during the gold rush, arriving in 1851. He traveled to California with Oneontan Collis Huntington, who later became one of the owners of the Central Pacific Railroad, which helped Watkins later in his career...

Albumen print mounted on coeval cardboard showing the first Nile cataract. Caption in French: 4. 1er Cataracte. Les rapides. Condition: Photo with some stains, cardboard slightly stained, few losses and toned. Dimension: Photo 19,3 x 25,1 cm., cardboard 29,8 x 40,6 cm.

This is a nice large format 14 by 11 hand tinted photograph of a forest in the northwestern United States. It is no. 54170 and has Asahel Curtis inscribed on the bottom of the photo. Asahel was the brother of Edward Curtis who was famous for his series of Indian Photos. This is in ex. cond.There is some glare in my picture as this is shrink wrapped and matted.