California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Eucalyptus grove at Santa Monica Station, ca.1900

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Eucalyptus grove at Santa Monica Station, ca.1900

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Photograph of a eucalyptus grove at Santa Monica Station, ca.1900. "A successor to Cooper was Abbot Kinney of Los Angeles. He was chairman of the California Board of Forestry from 1886 to 1888 during which time he launched a program that resulted in the planting of thousands of eucalyptus. Kinney established the forestry experimental station at Santa Monica where he did many studies on 75 to 100 eucalyptus species. By 1910, he was by far the leading contemporary eucalyptologist who had published more than anyone else on the topic. In 1887, the State Board of Forestry received land donations on which to build experiment stations.80 Experiment stations were instituted at Santa Monica, Chico, Merced, Hesperia, San Jacinto, and Lake Hemet. At the Santa Monica station one could buy eucalyptus seedlings for $3 or $4. This program was primarily designed to stimulate interest at the local nurseries. It was believed generally that eucalyptus could be grown for profit, and all that was needed was encouragement in the right places. It was reported that in 1890, the Santa Monica station distributed 76,000 eucalyptus seedlings to 421 interested growers. This station was experimenting with 55 eucalyptus species." -- unknown author.

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Title Eucalyptus grove at Santa Monica Station, ca.1900

Subject Eucalyptus (lcsh), Forests and forestry (lcsh), Industry -- Lumbering (file heading), Lumber (lcsh), Wood products (lcsh), woods (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1900

Type images

Format 2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), glass plate negatives (format), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1900

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12137

Identifier 5509 (accession number), CHS-5509 (call number), CHS-5509 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-11628 (legacy record id), chs-m12137 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-12290 (legacy record id), 1-108-45 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 11628

Unique identifier UC129979

Legacy Identifier CHS-5509.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.8 in × 15.0 in at 300dpi
47.7 cm × 38.2 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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