Raper James Waters (September 24, 1856 – November 5, 1937) was an Americancommercial photographer inCalifornia andNevada.^[1]

Raper James Waters was born on September 24, 1856, inSacramento, California. His father was George Gilbert Waters (1822-) and his mother was Lydia Mary Milner (1817-1881). He had two sons with Anna M. Waters between 1892 and 1895.^[2]

In 1892, Waters opened, R. J. Waters & Co., a commercial photography studio at 110 Sutter Street, inSan Francisco.^[1] Photographs by Waters are held at theJ. Paul Getty Museum,^[3] theMetropolitan Museum of Art,^[4] theLibrary of Congress,^[5] theOnline Archive of California,^[6] and theUniversity of Nevada, Reno library.^[7]

The Library of Congress has two of hispanoramic photographs from 1909, three years after the1906 San Francisco Earthquake.^[5]

From 1910 to 1917, R. J. Waters & Co., photographed plays for theForest Theater inCarmel-by-the-Sea, California.^[8]

Waters died on November 5, 1937, inFrench Camp,San Joaquin County, California, at the age of 81. According to theCalifornia Department of Public Healthdeath certificate, he was cremated on November 8, at the Casa Bonita Funeral Home inStockton, California.^[2] Private services were held from the chapel of Frisbie & Warren, Miner Avenue at American Street, Stockton on November 8.^[9]

• 
  View of theCharles Crocker'sCrocker Building in San Francisco (1912)
• 
  Ad
• 
  Shoreline oil wells inSummerland, California (1902)
• 
  Aerial viewgelatin silver print of Oakland from 1,000 feet

• Photographs by R. J. Waters from the Bancroft Library

Wikimedia Commons has media related toR. J. Waters & Co..

• 20th-century American photographers
• 1856 births
• 1937 deaths
• Photographers from Nevada
• 19th-century American photographers
• Photographers from San Francisco

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Articles with hCards
• Commons category link is locally defined