[View above the Witches' Cauldron, Sonoma County, California]

[View above the Witches' Cauldron, Sonoma County, California]

Photograph

Thomas Houseworth

Maker
American, 1828–1915

[View above the Witches' Cauldron, Sonoma County, California]

ca. 1870
Albumen silver print
Image (each): 3 1/16 × 2 15/16 in. (7.8 × 7.4 cm)
Mount: 3 5/16 × 6 13/16 in. (8.4 × 17.3 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer, 1951
1981.6103.0003
Inscriptions Inscribed in ink on mount on recto, RC: View above the Witches Cauldron.
Inscribed in ink on mount on recto, BR: The Geysers. Sonoma County, Cala.
Inscribed in ink on verso, TC: Mr. + Mrs. J.C.S Mrs. H.C.V.S. Mrs. P.V.S. + J.C.V.S at Geysers July 8th-9th, 1870.
Printed on verso, C: Paris International Exhibition \ 1867, \ The Highest Prize, \ A Bronze Medal, \ Awarded to \ Thomas Houseworth & Co. \ 317 & 319 \ Montgomery Street, \ San Francisco, \ For The Superiority \ of their \ Stereoscopic and Mammoth \ Photographic Views of Scenery on the Pacific Coast. \ Catalogues Sent Free of Postage. [see image for full text]
Inscribed in pencil on verso, RC: J. C. Smith
Inscribed in pencil on verso, BR: 24
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