Oswego Iron Works, Willamette River

The tree stumps and lumber strewn throughout the foreground imply that this facility is still under construction. A group of businessmen stands among the various buildings of their enterprise, at the end of a newly created road. This commanding view overlooking an industrial plant on Oregon's Willamette River belies the fact that it is actually the right half of a two-part panorama. Carleton Watkins's panoramas, which he began making in 1858, included pure landscapes as well as areas of industrial development.