Antique Circa 1880 Stereograph (Stereoview): "Indians of Arizona and New Mexico," Carleton E. Watkins, Photographer Infants - Poetry resulting in twenty-four scenes

resulting in twenty-four scenes

tissue-guarded portrait

Blue cloth backed color pictorial paper covered boards with rubbing to the corners and edges but other than that they are extremely clean and fresh for what is a beautiful copy of the book

a dichromate-based photographic process used for large-volume mechanical printing before the introduction of cheaper offset lithography

The brilliant visual artifice here transforms the child into a theater projectionist

Antique Circa 1880 Stereograph (Stereoview): "Indians of Arizona and New Mexico," Carleton E. Watkins, Photographer Infants - Poetry resulting in twenty-four scenes(Native American Interest) (Watkins, Carleton E., photographer). Antique Stereograph (Stereoview) Titled "Indians of Arizona and New Mexico" [From the "Arizona 1880" Series Checklist]. San Francisco, California: Carleton E. Watkins, 427 Montgomery St., [circa 1880]. A pair of 3 1 8" x 3" albumen photographs on the original orange card mount measuring 3 3 8" x 6 15 16" from "Watkins' New Series of Pacific Coast Views." Publication information is