Image / The stump and trunk of the Mammoth Tree of Calaveras [County, California]

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Title: The stump and trunk of the Mammoth Tree of Calaveras [County, California]
Creator: Nagel, Fishbourne & Kuchel (active ca. 1862), American, lithographer Hutchings, J. M. (James Mason) (1820-1902), publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: [1862]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Large group of men, women and child in fancy dress at cotillion dancing on large sequoia tree stump. People on horseback, in wagons, and in carriage in foreground; dense redwood forest in background.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LC, above title): Lith. of Nagel, Fishbourne & Kuchel, 529 Clay St[reet], cor[ner] Liedesdorff St[reet]s, S[an] Francisco; (LC, below title): Showing a cotillion party of thirty two persons dancing on a stump at one time./Published by J.M. Hutchings, S[an] Francisco.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 26 x 36.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf6z09p489
BANC PIC 1963.002:0381--B
Subject: California, Northern
Lumber industry
Manners & customs
Nature

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