Thomas Houseworth & Company

Above the third Bridge, Alameda Canon.

Getty Museum · about 1872

American Canon, from the Central Pacific Railroad, 4 miles above Alta.

Getty Museum · about 1872

American River from Cape Horn, 1400 feet below, Central Pacific Railroad

Getty Museum · about 1872

Arrival of the Ferry Steamers and Trains at the Terminus.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Artificial Flower Garden.

Getty Museum · 1869

Big Tree in The Fresno Grove - 79 feet circumference.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Big Tree Wm. Cullen Bryant, 305 ft. high, 45 ft. in circumference; near view; Calaveras County.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Big Tree Wm. Cullen Bryant, 305 ft. high, 45 ft. in circumference; near view; Calaveras County.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Bloomer Cut - 63 feet deep.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Bridal Veil Fall, 940 Feet High, (near view.)

Getty Museum · about 1870

Bridal Veil Fall, 940 Feet High. (near view.)

Getty Museum · about 1870

Cathedral Rocks, 2,400 Feet High - from near Black's Hotel, Merced River.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Cathedral Spires, 2,600 Feet High.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Cement Ridge near Crystal Lake, on the Central Pacific Railroad. Old Man Mountain in the distance.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Collection of Fruit - Glassware from Pacific Works.

Getty Museum · 1869

Convent Notre Dame, San Jose. View from the Gardens. Santa Clara Co.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Cosmopolitan Hotel - cor. Bush and Sansome Streets.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Dinner Party on board the Pullman Palace Car "Cosmopolitan."

Getty Museum · about 1872

East Side Montgomery Street - Looking North from California Street.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Emigrant Gap - Looking West from the Tunnel.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Entrance to the Cosmopolitan Hotel.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Fallen Tree, Father of the Forest, 112 feet circumference; and Jas. King of Wm., Mammoth Grove.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Fallen Tree, Father of the Forest, 112 feet circumference; and Jas. King of Wm., Mammoth Grove.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Fallen Tree Hercules, 325 ft. long, 97 ft. circumference; from a point 250 ft. from base, Calavereas Co.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Father of the Forest - 112 feet circumference.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Father of the Forest - 112 feet circumference - Entrance to the Horseback Ride, Mammoth Grove.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Father of the Forest, 112 feet circumference - near view, Mammoth Grove, Calaveras County.

Getty Museum · about 1872

First view of Cape Horn, above Colfax, looking east.

Getty Museum · about 1872

First view of the Geyser Hotel and the Canon below, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

From California street, cor. Stockton, looking East.

Getty Museum · about 1870

From the Devil's Tea Kettle, looking south, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

General View of Oakland, from Wilcox Block, looking East, Alameda County.

Getty Museum · about 1870

General view of the City, from Rincon Hill, looking North. [San Francisco, California]

Getty Museum · about 1870

Geyser Hotel, from across the Canon, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Geysers, from the Hotel, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Glacier Point. 3,700 Feet High - from near the Nevada Fall.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Glacier Point and Mirror Lake.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Grass Valley - from Cemetery Hill.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Hydraulic Mining - The Sluice Blocks.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Interior of Buckeye Quartz Mill - Washoe City.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Interior of the Old Mission Church, Mission Dolores, dedicated in 1776.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Interior View of Silver Palace Car.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Interior View of Snow Covering, Central Pacific Railroad.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Jackson Street from Dr. Merritt's grounds, looking South, Oakland, Alameda County.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Log Cabin in the Grove.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Looking down the Canon, above the Toll House, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Looking down the Canon, above the Toll House, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Looking down the Canon from the Devil's Office, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Looking down the Trail, from the Cap of Liberty.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Looking through the Porches.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Looking up Geyser Canon, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Looking up the Grizzly Giant.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Looking Up Yo Semite.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Louis Morajo - Pima Indian Chief.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Main street, Cisco, Placer County - Central Pacific Railroad.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Main Street, Dutch Flat, Placer County.

Getty Museum · 1868

Mammoth Grove Hotel, Calaveras County.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Meadow Lake, Summit City, 6,800 feet elevation. Central Pacific Railroad.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Middle Fork of the American River - near Shady Run; elevation 2,000 feet.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Miners at Work Among the Boulders. Columbia Chain, Tuolumne County.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Mirror Lake and Reflections.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Montgomery street, from California, North, instantaneous.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Nevada Fall, 700 Feet High - after a Snow Storm.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Nevada Fall, 700 feet high, and Cap of Liberty, 4,600 feet high.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Nevada Fall, 700 Feet High, from the Trail.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Nevada Fall, 700 feet high, near view.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Nevada Fall, 700 Feet High - (near view.)

Getty Museum · late 19th century

Nevada Fall, 700 Feet High, near view

Getty Museum · about 1870

"Nick of the Woods" - a Human Face in a Cedar Tree - Valley of Lake Tahoe.

Getty Museum · about 1870

North and South Dome - From near Union Point.

Getty Museum · about 1870

North Dome and Washington Tower.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Oakland University, 12th Street, Oakland, Alameda Co.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Oil and Water Color Paintings, by Geo. Burgess.

Getty Museum · 1869

Old Government Buildings N.E. Cor. Washington and Sansome Sts.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Old Man Mountain - from Mirror Lake.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Pacific Insurance Co.'s Building, N.E. corner of California and Leidesdorff streets.

Getty Museum · 1868

Placer Mining - The Arastra.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Pluto Creek and path to the Geysers, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Pluton Creek and path to the Geysers, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Porch of the Mission San Juan - Monterey Co.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Portsmouth Square, or Plaza.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Powell Street, looking North from California St.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Railroad Terminus - San Francisco Bay.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Reflection in Donner Lake - Mount Lincoln, Donner Peak.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Rounding Cape Horn, Central Pacific Railroad.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Royal Arches and Washington Column.

Getty Museum · about 1870

San Francisco Savings Union - California St.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Santa Clara Street, San Jose.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Seal Rocks and Pacific Ocean.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Seal Rocks and the Pacific Ocean - from the Cliff House.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Seal Rocks from the Cliff House - instantaneous.

Getty Museum · 1869

Second Street - From Rincon Hill.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Section of Long Ravine Trestle Bridge - from below; 120 feet high.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Section of the Big Tree, 30 feet in diameter, and House over the Stump, from the Sentinels.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Section of the Original Big Tree - 30 feet diameter.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Sentinel Rock - 3,270 feet high. From near Union Point.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Sentinel Rock, 3,270 Feet High, from the Merced River.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Sluice on Bed Rock - Babb claim and Tunnel in lower gravel.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Snow Sheds Below Cisco - Exterior.

Getty Museum · about 1872

South Dome, 6,000 Feet High, from Glacier Point.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Stages Leaving International Hotel - Virginia City.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Sugar-Loaf Mountain and Merced River.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Teaming from the Railroad, at Cisco, Placer County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Teams at the Cliff House.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Big Cut, above the third Bridge, Alameda Canon.

Getty Museum · about 1872

The Cathedral Rocks, 3,000 feet high, Yo-Semite Valley, Mariposa County.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The City - From corner California and Mason Street, looking Southeast [San Francisco, California]

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Crater, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

The Cross-Cut in The Big Tree.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Devil's Tea Kettle, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

The Ferry - crossing the Tuolumne River at Horr's Ranch.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The ferry - Merced River, Yo-Semite Valley.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Grand Hotel - cor. of Market and New Montgomery streets.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Grizzly Giant - 101 feet circumference.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Grizzly Giant - 101 feet circumference, near view.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Ladders at the Vernal Fall

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Lower Yo-Semite Fall from the Ford, Yo-Semite Valley, Mariposa County.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Photographic and Optical Instrument Establishment of the Publishers, 317 and 319 Montgomery St. [Thomas Houseworth & Co.]

Getty Museum · about 1870

The "Pride of Oakland," Oakland, Alameda County.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Ribbon Fall, 3,300 Feet High, near El Capitan. [Yo-Semite Valley]

Getty Museum · about 1875

The Root of the Father of the Forest.

Getty Museum · about 1872

The Sacramento Steamer Yo-Semite.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Sentinels, 315 feet high; near view. Section of the Big Tree, and house over the Stump.

Getty Museum · about 1872

The South Dome, 6,000 feet high, Yo-Semite Valley, Mariposa County.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The South Dome, 6,000 feet high, Yo-Semite Valley, Mariposa County.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The South Dome - from the east side.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Sugar Pine Tree - Placer County.

Getty Museum · about 1872

The Sugar Pine Tree - Placer County.

Getty Museum · about 1872

The Summit of Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Getty Museum · about 1872

The Trestle Bridge at Newcastle.

Getty Museum · about 1872

The Trestle Bridge at Newcastle, Central Pacific Railroad.

Getty Museum · about 1872

The Truckee River, near Camp 24, Central Pacific Railroad.

Getty Museum · about 1872

The Tunnel and Cars Loaded with ore, from the Gould & Curry Mine, Virginia City.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Vernal Fall, 350 Feet High - from the top, looking down.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Vernal Fall, 350 feet high, Yo-Semite Valley, Mariposa County.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Vernal Fall, 350 feet high, Yo-Semite Valley, Mariposa County.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Yo-Semite Fall, 2,634 feet high, near view, Yo-Semite Valley, Mariposa County.

Getty Museum · about 1870

The Yo-Semite Fall, 2,634 feet high, near view, Yo-Semite Valley, Mariposa County.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Tunnel No. 1 - Blue Canon, C.P.R.R.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Tu-Tock-Ah-Nu-La, (El Capitan) 3,300 feet high, from the Hardin Trail, Merced River.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Tu-Tock-Ah-Nu-La, (El Capitan) 3,300 feet high, (near view.)

Getty Museum · about 1870

Up Alameda Canon, from the Big Cut.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Upper Cisco, Placer County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Vallejo Street - Looking West, Russian Hill in the distance.

Getty Museum · about 1870

View Among the Chinese - Sacramento Street.

Getty Museum · about 1870

View down the Canon, from the road above the Hotel, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

View from Cape Horn, showing the Valley, 1400 feet below, Central Pacific Railroad.

Getty Museum · about 1872

View from the Stage road, below Pine Flat, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1870

View on Merced River, near the Bridal Veil Fall, Yo-Semite Valley, Mariposa County.

Getty Museum · about 1870

View on the Merced River, near the Bridal Veil Fall, Yo-Semite Valley, Mariposa County.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Virginia City - from the International Hotel

Getty Museum · about 1870

Washington Tower.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Witches' Cauldron and Devil's Pulpit, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Witches' Cauldron, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Witches' Cauldron, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Witches' Cauldron, Sonoma County, Cal.

Getty Museum · about 1872

Yo-Semite Falls, 2,634 Feet High.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Yo-Semite Falls, 2,634 Feet High.

Getty Museum · about 1870

Yo-Semite Valley, from Inspiration Point.

Getty Museum · about 1870