Sempervirens Club of California records, 1883-1966 (bulk 1900-1945)

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Sempervirens Club of California records, 1883-1966 (bulk 1900-1945)

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The Sempervirens Club Records document the activities of the Club fromits inception in 1900 to the early 1960's. The Sempervirens Club was founded to save old growth Redwoods in Santa Cruz Mountains of California. The lobbying efforts of the Club resulting in the creation of Big Basin State Park. The Records also document many activities of Sempervirens founder and professional photographer and painter Andrew Putnam Hill of San Jose California.

6 linear feet; (12 boxes and 1 oversized folder)

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History San José Research Library.

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Meadows, Don

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Historical Background Biography Don Meadows was a prominent Orange County historian and scholar. Meadows was born in Shoals, Indiana on October 20, 1897 and his family moved to Orange County, California in 1903. He graduated from Pomona College in 1922 and received an M.S. in Ecological Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 1931. He worked as a high school biology instructor, which in...

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Historical Note Andrew Putnam Hill was a San Jose artist and photographer who is credited with saving the old growth redwoods of Big Basin, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains of the California central coast area. Hill first saw the big trees of the redwood forest in 1899 when he was hired to photograph them for a magazine story. When he learned that they were to be logged he was inspired to work to prevent their destruction. From then on, mu...

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