R. J. Waters
Raper James Waters (born 1856) was an American photographer in California and Nevada.[1]
![](../I/Crocker_Bldgs.%252C_Market_%2526_Post_Sts._LCCN95515777.jpg.webp)
View of the Crocker Building in San Francisco (1912)
![](../I/San_Francisco_telephone_directory_(1906)_(14776183043).jpg.webp)
Ad
![](../I/lossy-page1-220px-Oil_wells_in_the_ocean%252C_Summerland%252C_Calif._LCCN2004677435.tif.jpg.webp)
Shoreline oil wells in Summerland, California (1902)
![](../I/lossy-page1-220px-Oakland%252C_California%252C_1000_feet_elevation_LCCN2007660471.tif.jpg.webp)
Aerial view gelatin silver print of Oakland from 1,000 feet
In 1892, Waters opened a commercial photography studio in San Francisco.[1]
Photographs by Waters are held at the J. Paul Getty Museum,[2] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[3] the Library of Congress,[4] the Online Archive of California,[5] and the University of Nevada, Reno library.[6]
The Library of Congress has two of his panoramic photographs from 1909, three years after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.[4]
References
- "Waters, Raper James, 1856- - Social Networks and Archival Context".
- "R.J. Waters (American, ?, active Northern California about 1870) (Getty Museum)".
- https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/259580
- "Search results from Panoramic Photographs, Available Online, San Francisco, R.J. Waters Aerial Photograph Co, California".
- "Views of Donner Lake, California. Photographed by R.J. Waters and Co., ca. 1915".
- "Waters, R. J".
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.