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Oswego Iron Works, Willamette River
Creator
Carleton WatkinsAmerican Photographer · 1829–1916
All works by this person →At twenty, Carleton Watkins headed out to California to make his fortune. After working as a daguerreotype operator in San Jose, he established his own practice and soon made his first visit to the Yosemite Valley. There he made thirty mammoth plate and one hundred stereograph views that were among the first photographs of Yosemite seen in the East. Partly on the strength of Watkins's photographs,
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- 1867
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
The tree stumps and lumber strewn throughout the foreground imply that this facility is still under construction. A group of businessmen stands among the various buildings of their enterprise, at the end of a newly created road. This commanding view overlooking an industrial plant on Oregon's Willamette River belies the fact that it is actually the right half of a two-part panorama. Carleton Watkins's panoramas, which he began making in 1858, included pure landscapes as well as areas of industrial development.
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