R. J. Waters

Raper James Waters (born 1856) was an American photographer in California and Nevada.[1]

View of the Crocker Building in San Francisco (1912)

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Shoreline oil wells in Summerland, California (1902)

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

1. "Waters, Raper James, 1856- - Social Networks and Archival Context".
2. "R.J. Waters (American, ?, active Northern California about 1870) (Getty Museum)".
3. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/259580
4. "Search results from Panoramic Photographs, Available Online, San Francisco, R.J. Waters Aerial Photograph Co, California".
5. "Views of Donner Lake, California. Photographed by R.J. Waters and Co., ca. 1915".
6. "Waters, R. J".