Photographs show many scenes in and around Yosemite Valley; some views of San Francisco (including Watkins' 9-plate stereograph-sized panorama, ca. 1867, and a view of the wreck of the ship Viscata, 1868) ; views along the Columbia River; a panorama of Portland (Oregon); and a few views of Idaho, Sitka (Alaska), and Lima (Peru).

153 photographic prints (formerly bound in 2 albums): albumen.

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