Hart & Watkins album

Alfred A. Hart; Carleton Watkins

1853–1885

Albumen silver prints, Albumen silver print

J. Paul Getty Museum

A closed album with a brown textured cover and dark brown leather binding on the left side and corners. Decorative gold trim runs along the spine edge and corners. A leather-bound album with embossed gold leaf decorative designs on the front cover, back cover, and spine. The album contains albumen prints of the West Coast of the United States from the late 19th century. Several prints are pasted on each page, most are annotated with titles and numbers. Before the albumen prints, there is a map of the Pacific Ocean, showing the relation of naval stations to the Hawaiian Islands.