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Carleton Watkins, [Rail Road Bridge] / [Railroad Bridge, Cape Horn]
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Carleton Watkins

[Rail Road Bridge] / [Railroad Bridge, Cape Horn]

1860

Current Collection

J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles, United States

Medium
Salted paper print
Dimensions
32.2 × 40.6 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-838048

Watkins often explored the ways in which lumber was used in mining. In the 1850s he probably provided lumber for building projects as a carpenter. His photographs of the elaborate wooden structures that were essential to the placer mining process were based on firsthand experience with the materials and an informed understanding of the delicate process of designing and building the structures.

Provenance

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Registry history

  • 1860 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs

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