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Title: [Original big tree and father of the forest]
Creator: Vischer, Edward (1808-1879), German, artist and publisher Kuchel, C. C. (1820-ca. 1865), Swiss, lithographer Nagel, Louis (active ca. 1844-ca. 1873), German, printer
Date Created and/or Issued: c1862
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: Two views of original big tree (from photographs) showing stairway to top of stump and log with people sitting on top; and one view of father of the forest lying on floor of grove.
Supplied title. Printed (UL): The Mammoth grove; (UC): Vischer's views of California; (UR): Plate VII; (MC): Stump and log of the original big tree, 1855, from photographs; (LC): The father of the forest/Partially buried in the ground, circumference at the root 112 feet, estimated height, before its downfall, 450 feet/ Entered...1862 by Edward Vischer... California.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on board: lithograph, color 27.7 x 34.7 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf709nb7s7
BANC PIC 1963.002:0385.07--ALB
Subject: California, Northern
Nature
Plants

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