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General Noble, a giant sequoia tree in Converse Basin Grove (Fresno County), 1892 (copy photo 1930s)

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Title: General Noble, a giant sequoia tree in Converse Basin Grove (Fresno County), 1892 (copy photo 1930s)
Contributor: Curtis, C. C. (Charles Curtis), 1862-1956
Date Created and/or Issued: 1892
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The General Noble Tree, a giant sequoia tree with a ground perimeter of 95 feet (29 m) (measured on a slope), was the second largest tree in the Converse Basin Grove (after the Boole Tree) and it was the largest tree ever cut down.
Photo caption: Falling of Gen. Noble - World's Fair Tree, Height of Tree 283 Feet. Circumference of Tree at base 101 Feet.
Text from negative sleeve: 17147. (copies of pics of cutting down Fresno tree in 1892 for Chicago World's Fair. [not Bobby Pacho! the neg.# search result]
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_14890
ark:/21198/zz002j8k0h
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Loggers
Giant sequoias--California
Giant Sequoia National Monument (Calif.)
World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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