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.

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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.

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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.

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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Muir, John, 1838-1914

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John Muir (born April 21, 1838, Dunbar, Scotland – died December 24, 1914, Los Angeles, California), Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which h...

Kaweah Colony

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The Kaweah Cooperative Colony, established in 1886 and inspired by Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, was a short-lived utopian community organized in Tulare County, California. From the description of Kaweah Cooperative Colony papers, 1886-1890. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702127629 ...

Clark, Galen, 1814-1910

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Clark, Joe, hunter

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Haskell, Burnette G., 1857-1907

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Burnette Gregor Haskell was born in Downieville, California, June 11, 1857. A printer and attorney, in 1882 he abandoned the Republican Party, embraced socialism, and began publishing the International Workingmen's Association journal Truth. He organized (1882) the Socialist Labor Party in San Francisco, and on the Pacific coast, the Knights of Labor, as well as the Sailors' Union (1885), Musicians', and other unions. Haskell married Anna Fader about 1883. A founder of the short-lived Marxist Ka...

Curtis, C. C. (Charles Clifford), 1862-1956.

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Challacombe, J. Richard.

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J. Richard Challacombe moved from St. Louis, Missouri to California as a teenager in the late 1930s. During World War II he served in a Civilian Public Service Camp in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. After the war he worked as a photojournalist. His images and stories have been published in such periodicals as National Geographic, Holiday, Arizona Highways, Westways. His film Conquest of Giants, which documents the early logging of the giant sequoia in the Sierra Nevada and the origins ...