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This image was created from a John Pitcher Spooner Photograph in the Stockton Mail, July 19, 1890.

This was Martin's last studio. He worked in it until he retired. The two previous studios he owned burned down in fires, but he continued expanding. Later, his images were given to the University of the Pacific in 1961.

Covert Martin took over John Spooner's role as Stockton's principle photographer when the 1900s hit. He recorded the changing Stockton as it matured to one of California's most vibrant cities.

Spooner may have been Stockton's preeminent photographer in the late 1800s, but he didn't have his first actual photography parlor until 1878. Prior to this, he had an older studio that he opened in 1870.