Saluting Nature Photography Day with a portrait of trees still living a century later (LOC)

What do you think: the original title mentions the "Three Graces," but is the tree in the foreground the Bachelor tree in the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias?

 

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Detroit Photographic Co., photographer

Mariposa Grove of big trees. "Three graces"

[ca. 1900]

 

1 photograph : photochrom print ; sheet 23 x 18 cm.

 

Summary: Photograph shows giant sequoia tree at Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California, with man standing next to it and a horse-drawn carriage driving nearby.

 

Notes:

- Title from Catalogue J. - part two, plain, platinum and hand colored photographs of American scenery and architecture. Detroit: Detroit Photographic Company. 1901, page 7, no. 06258.

- Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Information about the collection is available at Detroit Publishing Company - About this Collection - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)

- Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" at the Annenberg Space for Photography, 2018; Detroit Publishing Co. section.

 

Subjects:

Giant sequoias--California--Mariposa Grove--1890-1910.

 

Format:

Photochrom prints--1890-1910.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.53299

 

Call Number: LOT 9057

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