The Town on the Hill, New Almaden, 1863, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 39.7 x 52.3 cm (15 5/8 x 20 9/16 in.), Photographs, Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829–1916), Watkins, the consummate photographer of the American West, combined a virtuoso mastery of the difficult wet-plate negative process with a rigorous sense of pictorial structure. In 1863 he was hired to make a photographic survey of the quicksilver mining operations in New Almaden, near San Jose, California
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Town, Hill, New Almaden, 1863, Albumen silver print, glass negative, 39.7 x 52.3 cm, 15 5/8 20 9/16, Photographs, Carleton E. Watkins, American, 1829–1916, Watkins, consummate photographer, American West, combined, virtuoso mastery, difficult wet-plate, process, rigorous sense, pictorial structure, hired, photographic survey, quicksilver mining, operations, San Jose, California
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