Carleton E. Watkins
n.d.
Railroad Ferry "Solano" in Port from a Bluff

Albumen print, mammoth
15 1/8 x 22 in
 
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim (Auction: March 13, 2008, 51, part 2 / lot 93)
 
Smoke rises from the stack of the locomotive and the ferry. Here the picture is composed around the curving forms made of posts that form the slip for the ship.
 
LL/27727