Emil Burgermeister mountaineering views of California and Washington
Container / Volume:
Box 3
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Emil Burgermeister, mountaineer, who with his wife Fanny trekked through the national parks and forests of California, Oregon, and Washington from the 1910s through the early 1930s.
Description:
Geographic views identified after the Burgermeister's death by Oliver Kehrlein, a mountaineer-photographer.
Subject (Geographic):
California., Sequoia National Park (Calif.)--Pictorial works, and United States--West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
Burgermeister, Frances, 1881-1942
Subject (Topic):
Giant sequoia, Landscape photography--United States., Mountaineering--West (U.S.)--Pictorial works., and National parks and reserves--United States--Pictorial works.
Subject: View of the sequoia trees in the forests of Calaveras County, California. A man and woman stand on the large stump of a tree at center, as two other men have climbed onto a cut piece of the tree. A small house is seen at center, with men and women seen walking around it and through the forest. Tunnels have been blasted through some of the trees and a man on horseback is seen at right about to ride through a tree
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc72 870mb: Imperfect: bottom corners mutilated., Title from caption below image., "A. The father of the forest -- B. The mother of the forest -- C. The Three Graces -- D. The big tree -- E. The Miner's cabin -- F. Uncle Tom's cabin -- G. The horseback ride -- H. The two guardsmen or sentinels.", and Text at the bottom printed in red. Another version is known with text printed in black ink.
BEIN: Original wrappers bound in., Contains some material identical with that in the author's The mammoth tree grove ... 1862., Vol. 1 consists of "Sequoia gigantea" (1 leaf) dated 1864 and "The mammoth tree grove, Calaveras county, Cal., and its avenues" (1 l., 13, iii p.) with special t.-p. dated 1862, preceded by a general t.-p. and an index., Vol. 1 corresponds to item 5a of Farquhar's Yosemite ... a selective bibliography., and Vol. 2 consists of plates, preceded by a dedicatory leaf from the author to the librarian of Yale College and an index. There is no t.-p., the cover-title reading: The forests of California: Sequoia gigantea sempervirens. Calaveras mammoth tree grove. Photographs from the original drawings of Edward Vischer.
