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Carleton Watkins, [Eagle Creek, Columbia River]
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Carleton Watkins

[Eagle Creek, Columbia River]

1867

Current Collection

J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles, United States

Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
39.2 × 52.1 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-745840

In this photograph of Eagle Creek, Carleton Watkins positioned his camera overlooking the sawmill to sympathetically record a group of trees useful only as lumberyard ornaments. His perspective also allowed him to capture the Oregon Portage Railroad, which was used to carry cut lumber from the Eagle Creek Sawmill, snaking along the banks of the river. When Watkins opened his Yosemite Art Gallery in San Francisco in 1867, he decided that he would stock only his own photographs. A four-month expedition to Oregon and the Columbia River provided hundreds of images for the gallery, including this example.

Provenance

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Registry history

  • 1867 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs

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