Glass stereographs of Frémont's Mariposa estate include exterior (and some interior) views of the Josephine, Mount Ophir, Oso, and Princeton mines; the Agua Fria, Bear Valley, Benton, and Oso mills; Guadelupe Valley, Mormon Bar, Stockton Creek, and T...
Description:
The first major series of outdoor photographs by Carleton Watkins, western photographer. Col. John C. Frémont hired Watkins to produce a series of photographs depicting Frémont's Mariposa estate and its assets. Frémont's mining estate, Las Mariposa...
Subject (Geographic):
California, Mariposa County, Mariposa County (Calif.), and Mariposa Estate (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Frémont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902 and Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890.
Glass stereographs of Frémont's Mariposa estate include exterior (and some interior) views of the Josephine, Mount Ophir, Oso, and Princeton mines; the Agua Fria, Bear Valley, Benton, and Oso mills; Guadelupe Valley, Mormon Bar, Stockton Creek, and T...
Description:
The first major series of outdoor photographs by Carleton Watkins, western photographer. Col. John C. Frémont hired Watkins to produce a series of photographs depicting Frémont's Mariposa estate and its assets. Frémont's mining estate, Las Mariposa...
Subject (Geographic):
California, Mariposa County, Mariposa County (Calif.), and Mariposa Estate (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Frémont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902 and Frémont, John Charles, 1813-1890.
Engraving based on the M.A. Root photographic portrait of J.C. Frémont; half-length; body slightly to left; head toward right in three-quarter profile; beard, long-hair parted in the middle; buttoned-up double-breasted jacket, tie; facsimilie signatu...
BEIN: Copy 2 was James W. Abert's personal copy and includes a ms. letter from John Fremont tipped in, ordering Abert to make preparations for departure from St. Louis in 1845. Copy 2 is also extra illustrated with 12 plates of watercolors of Indians...
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New, Arkansas, and United States
Subject (Topic):
Discovery and exploration and Exploring expeditions