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Mammoth Arbor Vitae [redwood]: standing on the head waters of the Stanislaus & San Antoine Rivers, in Calaveras County, California

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Title: Mammoth Arbor Vitae [redwood]: standing on the head waters of the Stanislaus & San Antoine Rivers, in Calaveras County, California
Creator: Lapham, Joseph M. (active 1852-1860), American, artist Britton & Rey (active 1851-1902), lithographer
Date Created and/or Issued: c1853
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: Giant redwood standing in clearing; tent, Indians with bows and papoose, and western couple in foreground. Detail of pine cone below main image.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): From nature by J.M. Lapham; (LR): Lith. Britton & Rey, San Francisco; (LC, below title): Diameter 31 feet at the base- circumference 96 f[ee]t-height 290 f[ee]t, 3000 years old/Entered... 1853 by W.H Hanford...California. For variants see 1963.002:0374--D and 1963.002.375-C.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph 59.2 x 46.4 cm., dome top
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf9x0nb9j3
BANC PIC 1963.002:1420--C
Subject: California, Northern
Nature
Plants

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