$4,800
Stereoscopic Cards of the American West, Martha's Vineyard, San Francisco. Fifty-one Watkins cards depicting natural features of the Yosemite Valley (including El Capitan and Half Dome, Yosemite Falls, and the Mariposa Grove); twenty-three views of the Wesleyan Grove Campground on Martha's Vineyard; five views of San Francisco (Montgomery Street on July 4th, 1864, the Cliff House, and a panorama from Telegraph Hill); four Union Pacific Railroad views; three cards of Florida; three from Nash and Fuller (a large New York City restaurant formerly on Park Row); and two miscellaneous cards: one showing an unnamed cavern and the other a larger card from Albee in Pittsburgh, advertising a series of views taken after a railroad fire that occurred in that city in July, 1877, this view shows a series burnt-out and derailed engines. (91)
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-11-17
