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Challacombe, J. Richard. J. Richard Challacombe photograph collection pertaining to the early logging of giant sequoia in the Sierra Nevada [graphic].

Title: J. Richard Challacombe photograph collection pertaining to the early logging of giant sequoia in the Sierra Nevada [graphic]. ca. 1870-ca. 1985, bulk 1885-1905.

Includes photographs pertaining to the early logging and lumbering of giant sequoia in the Sierra Nevada of California; Converse Basin grove, Calaveras Big Tree grove, and other giant sequoia habitats; early figures in the movement to conserve the giant sequoia; the Kaweah Colony; and other miscellaneous subjects associated with the giant sequoia. Includes portraits of John Muir, Galen Clark, Burnett Haskell and the hunter Joe Clark, among others. Among the trees depicted are General Noble (felled in 1892 for exhibit in the Chicago World's Fair), Mark Twain, General Grant and the Boole tree. Bulk of the photographs are copy prints, collected and organized as research for Challacombe's documentary film Conquest of Giants (1968). A few later photographs, taken by Challacombe, are also included.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes and 1 oversize folder (ca. 1,800 photographic prints), 2 boxes (ca. 820 negatives and transparencies) and ca. 125 negatives : b&w and color ; 26 x 36 cm or smaller.

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