Monday, May 7, 2012

Gen Fremont's Visit to the Redwood Big Trees in Santa Cruz California



85. Gen Fremont, Wife And Daughter.

1888 printing-out photograph by A.Y. Delotte of General John Charles Frémont and his family posed in front of the tree named in his honor at the Big Trees of Santa Cruz, California. Big Trees was a 40 acre grove of redwoods owned by Joseph Warren Welch at the time that this picture was taken, but is now is part of the Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. This image was later published as a postcard by Edward H. Mitchell



84. Gen. Fremont And Party Showing Circumference of Giant

1888 printing-out photograph by A.Y. Delotte, showing Gen. Fremont with his Family and friends gathered in a circle hand in hand, giving scale to the circumference of Giant, the redwood tree behind them. 



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