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One hundred photographs with botanical descriptions suitable for coloring of the wild flowers of Yosemite and the High Sierra.
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Title:
One hundred photographs with botanical descriptions suitable for coloring of the wild flowers of Yosemite and the High SierraCreator/Contributor:
Pillsbury's Pictures, Inc, creator, photographer.Creator/Contributor:
Pillsbury Picture CoAbstract:
Professional photographs depicting wild flowers of the Yosemite Valley region of the Sierra Nevada.
Date:
1915 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us-nvWild flowers -- California -- Yosemite Valley -- Photographs
Wild flowers -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Photographs
Botany -- California -- Yosemite Valley
Botany -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
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Issued in wooden box (shelved in ALB box 2). Title and publication information printed on box top.
Photographic images include common and botanical names of flower printed in negative. Back of each photo includes printed
caption providing botanical information and other characteristics of flower depicted on front.
One hundred photographs with botanical descriptions suitable from coloring of the wild flowers of Yosemite and the High Sierra,
BANC PIC 2014.099, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Arthur Clarence Pillsbury, 1870-1946; photographer; innovator of panoramic and motion picture camera technology; amateur botanist;
originally based in San Francisco, where he became famous for his documentation of the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake and
fire; later based in Yosemite Valley; firm was more commonly known as the Pillsbury Picture Co.
List of transcribed captions available in library.
Type:
graphicPhysical Description:
photoprint
100 photographs in 1 box : gelatin silver prints ; 15 x 10 cm
Language:
English