History of acquisition of the Big Basin as a state park : typescript (signed), 1955 May 15.

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History of acquisition of the Big Basin as a state park : typescript (signed), 1955 May 15.

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Prepared as president, Sempervirens Club of California. Accompanied by copy of a speech before the California Assembly, Feb. 18, 1901, by D.M. Delmas in behalf of an appropriation by the Legislature for purchase of the area.

4 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Delmas, D. M. (Delphin Michael), 1844-1928

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Jones, Herbert C. (Herbert Coffin), 1880-1970.

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Lawyer and state legislator (1913-1934) from San Jose, California. From the description of Herbert C. Jones papers, 1921-1944. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122560460 Herbert C. Jones was born in Wichita on June 24, 1884. In 1915, while working for his father at the Jones Milling Company, Jones established the first bus line in Wichita by equipping a 1915 Ford with a wooden body that could hold up to 70 people. Jones operated the Wichita Motor Bus Company until...

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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...