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

Title: General Noble, a giant sequoia tree in Converse Basin Grove, 1892 (copy photo 1930s)
Photographer: Curtis, C. C. (Charles Curtis), 1862-1956
Date Created: 1892
Date: 1892
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description: Photo caption: Gen. Noble - World's Fair Tree looking West showing break in falling, Fresno Co., Calif.
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.
Caption: 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]

Genre: news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
Names: World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Location: Fresno County (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Giant Sequoia National Monument (Calif.)
Loggers
Giant sequoias--California

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_14891
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002j8k11
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