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California views. No. 9. Big trees, Calaveras Grove

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Description: Image of a small group of people dwarfed by very large Sequoia trees at Calaveras Big Trees State Park in California.
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Date: ©1873
Call number: priJLC_PRG_002304
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005. This collection forms part of the Jay T. Last Collection of graphic arts and social history, which was donated to the Huntington Library by Jay T. Last in 2005 as a gift in progress. The bulk of the Louis Prang archive was transferred to the Library between 2010 and 2012.

The mammoth tree grove, Calaveras County California

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Image of an eye-level view of the Mammoth Tree Grove of sequoia redwood trees in Calaveras County, California, showing tourists standing and riding horses in a clearing in the forested landscape and exploring large stumps, hollowed out bases, and standing trees, with a wooden building in the center; tree reference key printed in margin.

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Tree Top Brand

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Image of twin sequoia trees centered behind the Tree Top Brand name; wrapped Sunkist orange logo at lower left.

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Mariposa Big Tree Grove

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An oversize framed panoramic photograph of giant sequoia trees in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite Valley, California. In original heavy oak frame, approximately 12 feet long. H. C. Tibbitts was a photographer for the Southern Pacific Railroad; the photograph was probably hanging in railroad offices or in a local railroad depot.

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Early autumn on Esopus Creek, Kingston, N.Y

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Image of a landscape view of Esopus Creek near Kingston, New York, in autumn; two small figures on the bank are dwarfed by trees at center; bridge visible in the distance at left.

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Mammoth Arbor Vitae

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Image of an eye-level landscape view of a large sequoia redwood tree in Calaveras County, California, with Native Americans, a tipi, and white tourists in formal dress viewing the tree; a to-scale drawing of a pine cone on a branch at bottom center.

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A Correct View of the Mammoth Tree Grove, By D. A. Plecker

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Image is of a giant redwood tree in the center with lesser tress in the background. There are several people standing in the foreground and some people are standing on a large redwood stump. The text on either side of the image describes Mammoth Tree Grove of Calaveras County. Baird notes that this image is closely related to Hutchings' issue (Baird #106). "Fishbourne's Lithog. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855, by D. A. Plecker, in the Clerks' Office of the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Ohio St. San Francisco."--text, below image. Paper color: buff.

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California views. No. 9. Big trees, Calaveras Grove

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