The Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco

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The Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco

1868

Carleton E. Watkins

Although best known for his pictures of Yosemite, Carleton E. Watkins was also an important chronicler of San Francisco, where he worked out of studios and galleries on Montgomery Street. In this photograph from 1868, Watkins offers a vista of the city expanding into undeveloped land, with the downward sweep of the half-built road emblematic of what Watkins saw as the city’s inexorable progress.
Photographer
Carleton E. Watkins (1829–1916)
Title
The Golden Gate from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco
Date
1868
Object Type
Photograph
Medium
Albumen silver print from wet-collodion-on-glass negative
Dimensions
15 3/8 x 20 5/8 in. (39 x 52.4 cm)
Credit Line
Museum Purchase, Prints and Drawings Art Trust Fund
Accession Number
1999.129

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