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![View of Gleenbrook [sic] Bay, Lake Tahoe, Showing Saw Mills, Breakwater and Steamers of Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Flume Co., also Lake Terminus of Lake Tahoe, N.G.R.R.](http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ci/AL18g_Qa_4PgLL-u8HaGh-nMSmMtOcd8IDybaY_bkPbKD988Lp8zqdN4W6uKkTbZovFzf6bPwIm5inI)
View of Gleenbrook [sic] Bay, Lake Tahoe, Showing Saw Mills, Breakwater and Steamers of Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Flume Co., also Lake Terminus of Lake Tahoe, N.G.R.R.
Carleton Watkins1868 - 1873
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
The subject is a settlement on the shore of Lake Tahoe, at Glenbrook Bay, a location that was photographed in mammoth plate only by Watkins. Mammoth plate photographs of obscure settlements that were not connected with industry are very rare.
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- Title: View of Gleenbrook [sic] Bay, Lake Tahoe, Showing Saw Mills, Breakwater and Steamers of Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Flume Co., also Lake Terminus of Lake Tahoe, N.G.R.R.
- Creator: Carleton Watkins
- Date Created: 1868 - 1873
- Location Created: Lake Tahoe, Nevada, United States
- Physical Dimensions: 40.2 × 52.4 cm (15 13/16 × 20 5/8 in.)
- Type: Print
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Albumen silver print
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 85.XM.36
- Culture: American
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
- Creator Display Name: Carleton Watkins (American, 1829 - 1916)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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