Issued in connection with an exhibition held Apr. 24-Aug. 17, 2014, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Includes bibliographical references.

Selections from the Stanford Albums -- Essays -- The Complete Stanford Albums.

Foreword / John L. Hennessy -- Introduction / Connie Wolf -- Notes on Carleton Watkins / Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell -- Notes on process / George Philip LeBourdais -- Notes on the Stanford albums / John E. Mustain -- Selections from the Stanford albums. Photographs of the Pacific Coast (1862-76) -- Photographs of the Yosemite Valley (1861-1865-66) -- Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon (1867 and 1870) -- Essays. Landscape photography under pressure: Carleton Watkins at Malakoff / Jason D. Weems -- Lost in the city / Gavin Jones and Judith Richardson -- Watkins's salvage operation / Elizabeth Hutchinson -- Malakoff Diggins, North Bloomfield, Nevada Co., Cal. / Robert H. Dawson -- A most "uncanny" place: Watkins's view of Devil's Canyon / Corey Keller -- Seabirds: silent no more / Stephen Palumbi -- Looking back at Watkins / James Clifford -- Reflections on Mount Watkins and other incompletions / George Philip LeBourdais -- The Sentinels of Yosemite / Barton H. Thompson Jr. -- Ecologies: trees, fires, and photographs / George Philip LeBourdais -- Written in water: Carleton Watkins's West / David M. Kennedy -- Watkins and singularity / Alexander Nemerov -- Overlooking the Columbia / Erik Steiner -- How a historian reads a picture / Richard White -- The complete Stanford albums. Photographs of the Pacific Coast (1862-76) -- Photographs of the Yosemite Valley (1861 and 1865-66) -- Photographs of the Columbia River and Oregon (1867 and 1870).