Carleton Watkins, View of Gleenbrook [sic] Bay, Lake Tahoe, Showing Saw Mills, Breakwater and Steamers of Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Flume Co., also Lake Terminus of Lake Tahoe, N.G.R.R.
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Carleton Watkins

View of Gleenbrook [sic] Bay, Lake Tahoe, Showing Saw Mills, Breakwater and Steamers of Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Flume Co., also Lake Terminus of Lake Tahoe, N.G.R.R.

1868–1873

Current Collection

J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles, United States

Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
40.2 × 52.4 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-678149

The subject is a settlement on the shore of Lake Tahoe, at Glenbrook Bay, a location that was photographed in mammoth plate only by Watkins. Mammoth plate photographs of obscure settlements that were not connected with industry are very rare.

Provenance

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Registry history

  • 1868–1873 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs

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