Carleton Watkins

or a reading room where you can sit and they will bring collections objects to you so that you can see them yourself.

And I actually learned about this before I ever worked in the field because Doug Durtinger, who was a professor of mine in undergrad, took us to the California State Library to look at in-person Carlton Watkins photographs and Ansel Adam prints that were held by the library in special collections.

So It is something that you do at least have some access to.

And a lot of, you know, this big push to digitize collections that's happening right now, particularly nitrate, because nitrate is, you know, rapidly deteriorating and we're losing it um more and more of those things are available online on uh places like the online archive of california where you can just literally search through photographic collections from every museum and archive that's on there it's it's pretty incredible what you have access to now i