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Title: Hermit, in the foreground The Burnt Tree, a charred trunk
Creator: Vischer, Edward
Contributor: Kuchel, Charles Conrad, 1820-
Nagel, L. (Louis)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1862
Publication Information: San Francisco : Edward Vischer
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Plates in: Vischer's views of California : the mammoth tree grove, Calaveras County, California, and its avenues ; consisting of title page and 12 plates with 25 engravings. Plate XI, The Mammoth Grove.
Typographical work by Agnew & Deffebach, San Franciso. L. Nagel, printer. C.C. Kuchel, lithographer.
"Height 318 feet; chrcumference at the base 60 feet" -- caption.
2010-3786.
Discovered in 1852 by Augustus T. Dowd, area became a state park in 1931 - Calaveras Big Trees State Park.
Type: image
Format: Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 print : lithograph ; 13 1/2 x 10 5/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001427558CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Giant sequoias--California--Calaveras County
Calaveras County (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Calaveras Big Trees State Park (Calif.)--Pictorial works
Prints
Lithographs
Landscape prints
Place: California
Calaveras County
Calaveras County (Calif.)
Calaveras Big Trees State Park (Calif.)

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