Devil's Slide

Devil's Slide by Carleton E. Watkins

Medium

Photography-Photoprint

Classification

Photography-Photoprint

Department

Smithsonian Collection

Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Credit

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase

Accession Number

1974.30.6

Tags

railroad yardColoradorock formation

About the Artist

Carleton E. Watkins · 18291916

Carleton E. Watkins (1829–1916), one of America's pioneering landscape photographers, was born on November 11, 1829, in Oneonta, New York, the eldest of eight children to carpenter John Watkins and innkeeper Julia. Drawn by the Gold Rush, he arrived in San Francisco in 1851 at age 22 alongside childhood friend Collis Huntington, who later became a railroad tycoon. Initially working as a carpenter ...

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