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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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.

Creator

Carleton Watkins

American Photographer · 1829–1916

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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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Date
1868–1873
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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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.

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