Nationality
American
Artist Dates
1864 - 1938
Preview
Date of Work
c. 1897
Date of Work
1897
Medium
Stereoscopic Slide
Height
3.5
Width
7
Collection/Provenance
Art & Design Study Collection, James Smith Pierce Collection.
Status
Stored: SS-Box-JSP-1
Location
UND Art Collections Repository
Additional Information
Black and white photo of a large tree trunk with a road running through it. A carriage rides through the road and a woman poses in front of the trunk.
Text on front left:
Keystone View Company
Manufacturers Publishers
Copyright 1897, by
B. L. Singley. Made in U.S.A.
Text on front below image:
5006 - The Wawona Tree, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite Valley, Cal., U.S.A.
Text on front right:
Meadville, Pa., St. Louis, Mo., Portland, Ore., New York, N.Y., Toronto, Can., London, Eng.
Text on back:
126
"Wawona" is the Indian name for "Big Tree," and this specimen is a very beautiful one, standing in the Mariposa Grove, which can be most easily visited from the Wawona Hotel, on the Berenda route to Yosemite. This tree is the second one which was tunneled and it has not been in any way injured by the experiment. The botanical name of the Big Tree is Sequoia Gigantea, and this species grows in high mountain basins, where the trees are sheltered from great winds, and where the melting snows from the high Sierras, give them a plentiful and perpetual supply of moisture. The "Sequoia Gigantea" should be distinguished from the "Sequoia Sempervirens" which grows only on the Coast. Both species of these trees are now found only in California J. M. Hutchings, Author of "In the heart of the Sierras."
Condition
Very Good