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View of trees and three tall tree trunks, probably California Redwood (Sequoia gigantea), two trunks in the foreground with a woman in bonnet and ankle-length dress seated apparently on an upholstered seat set into the base of the tree on the right, a lattice-like frame enclosing the mid-section of the trunk in the centre of the picture. Sepia photographic print approximately 21 cm x 31 cm, mounted on slightly larger card. Annotated on the back in A. R. Wallace's? hand in pencil " Not exceeding 5 5/8 | 3 1/2" with arrows indication dimensions. Annotated in an unknown hand in pencil "183 | 16348". No caption present. Possibly a Taber photo. Place: USA Notes: Reproduced in A. R. Wallace's "Studies Scientific and Social" (1900) vol. 1 fig. 49, p. 8, captioned "The 'Mother of the Forest' (Dead) Calaveras Grove." Date based on the year that A. R. Wallace was in the USA, but possibly earlier. |
