<a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/carleton-emmons-watkins">Carleton E. Watkins</a>, American, 1829-1916 Born in Oneonta, New York, Carleton Watkins traveled west to California in the early 1850s, shortly after the gold rush. He learned photography in 1854 from Robert Vance, one of the earliest and best of San Francisco's daguerreotypists. Vance's landscape photography, unusually skilled f