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908. The Original Big Tree, 250 feet from the Stump, 335 feet high, Mammoth Grove, Calaveras County.
908. The Original Big Tree, 250 feet from the Stump, 335 feet high, Mammoth Grove, Calaveras County.
911. But-end section of the Original Big Tree, near view, showing the auger holes made in felling.
918. The Root of the Miners’ Cabin. The man on ground at left is Hubert H. Bancroft; the man at left on the ground is Charles Lyman Pond, photographer. The man at the middle of the root is probably Albert L. Bancroft and the man at top is possibly James L. Sperry.
927. California and Broderick. The men are holding the tape measure used for their various measurements.
1751. A Felled Tree-78 feet circumference-from which a section has been taken for exhibition. The man in the view is Henry Stegman, holding Giant Sequoia foliage, prophetic of his future occupation in Yosemite Valley as proprietor of Stegman & Son, opposite the Cosmopolitan Saloon. Henry Stegman was the operator of a corral in Yosemite Valley from 1874 through 1889. He was also the valley postmaster between 1879 and 1886. Henry and wife Sally Ann lived briefly at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, but Sally Ann became homesick and returned to Yosemite. Stegman followed her back, and they made their home in the valley thereafter.
1752. A Felled Tree-78 feet circumference-from which a section has been taken for exhibition. The man with the basket at right is Henry Stegman.
1754. The cross-cut in the Big Tree. Henry Stegman is at left on the ground; William G. Stegman is the well-dressed man above right.
694-Fallen Tree Hercules, 325 feet long, circumference 97 feet, Mammoth Trees of Calaveras Co., California. Charles Lyman Pond, the photographer is on the log.
The Artist at Home. The man is one of the members of the “Jolly Daubers”, a group of avid painters around Santa Cruz, California who would gather for camping or other outdoor excursions to paint landscapes and seascapes. (D)
“Would you be surprised to see” the effect of training for my next cross examination. This is likely Arthur Orton, the Tichborne Claimant.
Ordnance Survey of Sinai. 1869. The Non-commissioned officers of the Royal Engineers, on the Sinai Expedition, with cook, servant, and Arab guide, at Wady Feiran.