(CALIFORNIA) Thomas Houseworth Co Pacific Coast Scenery

Sale 2263 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 21,600

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

(CALIFORNIA.) Thomas Houseworth & Co. Pacific Coast Scenery. 200 albumen photographs, each 3 x 3 inches, mounted on 25 printed album leaves as issued, with one introductory text leaf and a title page. 4to, publisher's morocco gilt, worn, partially separated from the text block; album pages generally warped and foxed with intermittent staining and inked numbers, but photographs mostly clean and crisp; early owner's signature on detached front free endpaper. San Francisco, CA: Yo-semite Gallery, [1872]

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An important photographic rarity. Houseworth was best known for producing stereograph views of California, and this album contains 200 of his stereo halves. The images are grouped topically, with numerous street views of San Francisco, large trees in Calaveras and Mariposa, views of Yosemite Valley, views from and of the Central Pacific Railroad, mining, and Lake Tahoe. One image depicts "Chinese miners on their travels." Cowan 1933, page 468. One copy in WorldCat and none found at auction since 1973.