Laying Down on the Job

"S.F.D. in repose on Mt Rainier"

I've been a bit lazy since my first post. So I figured I'd post an image that was apropos.

This is a circa 1910-1920's real photo post card of a telephone lineman resting while on the job.

Although most of my interest in trees is in the forms and atmosphere that trees create, I also have interest in how trees are used beyond their natural beauty. Logging and building are the more frequent imagery one will find in this period. Once in a while you can find real photo postcards of linemen up on poles connecting small towns across America with telegraph, telephone, or electrical lines.

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.