Gnarled trees, etc. photographs undated. [undated]

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Gnarled trees, etc. photographs undated. [undated]

This folder contains 11 photographs of weatherbeaten dead spruce trees and other natural scenes from the mountains of Colorado, photographed by Donald C. Kemp, most in the 1930s or 1940s. Print #48 is of a dead spruce tree on top of Gwen Mountain, west of Eldora. Print #49 is a scenic view looking across Red Rock Lake (near Ward, Colo.) toward the Continental Divide. Print #s 50-53 are of wildly shaped remnants of a forest fire on Pile Hill ridge, some 7 miles south of Eldora. Print #58 is of a cluster of small living trees on a timberline ridge near Corona (Rollinsville); they have been bent by the force of hard winter gales. Print #54 is a scenic view looking north across Mud Lake near Rollinsville; the Arapaho peaks, Mount Albion and Mount Audubon are on the horizon. Print #55 is of several barkless trees at timberline, near James Peak. Print #56 shows a bare tree remnant on a low ridge along the side of the highway from Estes Park to Grand Lake. Print #57 is a winter view of a live jack pine standing alone on Sulphide Flats near Eldora.

11 photographs.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7455108

Boulder Public Library

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Kemp, Donald C. (Donald Campbell), 1889-

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Colorado author. Born in Central City, Colo. and educated in Boulder, Colo. After Army career, Capt. Kemp retired 1935 to research and write on Colorado history and mining subjects. From the description of Papers, 1930-1974. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 14089139 ...