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Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916 Recollection of a trip to America

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03030 Author/Creator: Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916 Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1873 Pagination: 1 v. Order a Copy

Album of 67 photographs of the West, including San Francisco, Native Americans, Yosemite and Sequoia forests, Mormons, Salt Lake City (Mormon Tabernacle under construction), Brigham Young portrait, Colorado, and parts of Western Canada. There are also photographs of the railroad tracks and locomotive while stopped in a mountain pass. Some of the images may date from 1864.

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Young, Brigham, 1801-1877

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