California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

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

Portrait of General Fremont, his wife, daughter and friends near a giant redwood tree in Big Trees Grove in Felton, California, 1888

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Portrait of General Fremont, his wife, daughter and friends near a giant redwood tree in Big Trees Grove in Felton, California, 1888

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Photographic portrait of General Fremont, his wife, daughter and friends near a giant redwood tree in Big Trees Grove in Felton, California, 1888. In the foreground, a group of men and women can be seen holding hands and standing in a circle. The men are all wearing suits and hats, and the women all have long dresses. There are more people looking on in the background. The circle of people is standing in front of a redwood tree bearing a sign that reads "Giant". There are countless redwoods in the background. Photoprint reads "Grizzly Giant". Additional information: This image was taken on May 4,1888 at Big Trees Grove in Felton, California. The tree the group is standing at has had three names. Today (as of March 2018) it is called simply "the Giant". Originally, it was called the "San Lorenzo Giant". In 1846, during Fremont's original visit to the grove, it was named in his honor as the "Fremont Tree". The name, "Fremont Tree" was later shifted to a different near-by tree. Today (as of March 2018), the "Giant" remains the largest tree in the Big Trees Grove, which is now known as Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park.

John Fremont is the man with the white beard on the other side of the ring of people, facing the camera and wearing a bowler hat. On his right, is his daughter Elizabeth "Lily" Fremont and on his left, holding the flowers, is his wife, Jessie Benton Fremont.

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Title Portrait of General Fremont, his wife, daughter and friends near a giant redwood tree in Big Trees Grove in Felton, California, 1888

Subject forests (adlf), Fremont, Gen. John (subject), Men (lcsh), Portraits -- Fremont, John C. and Jessie Benton (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Felton (city or populated place), Santa Cruz (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1888-05-04

Type images

Format 3 photographs : transparencies, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 10 x 13 cm., 12 x 17 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat), transparencies (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 1888-05-04

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.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m13625

Identifier 11167 (accession number), CHS-11167 (call number), CHS-11167 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-13122 (legacy record id), chs-m13625 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-13780 (legacy record id), 1-22- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 13122

Unique identifier UC136426

Legacy Identifier CHS-11167.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 18.5 in × 13.3 in at 300dpi
47.2 cm × 33.7 cm at 300dpi

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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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