Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Sempervirens Club of California : an album of photographs of the 1900 and 1901 gatherings of the club in Santa Cruz County /
BANC PIC 1955.008--fALBLOCAL
Collection Overview

Title:

Sempervirens Club of California: an album of photographs of the 1900 and 1901 gatherings of the club in Santa Cruz County

Creator/Contributor:

Hill, A. P. (Andrew Putnam), 1854-1922, creator

Creator/Contributor:

Richards, W. W.

Abstract:

Album of copy prints compiled by W.W. Richards for the 27th anniversary meeting of the Sempervirens Club in 1927. Images depict scenes in the redwoods of the Big Basin area, which the club was dedicated to preserving; logging activities; and the 1901 visit to Big Basin of Gov. Henry Tifft Gage and members of the State Park Commissioner's Advisory Board. Photographs also include views of outings and camping.

Date:

1900-1901 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Conservation of natural resources -- California -- Santa Cruz County -- Photographs
Lumbering -- California -- Photographs
Redwood industry -- California -- Photographs
Forest conservation -- California -- Photographs
Parks -- California -- Santa Cruz County -- Photographs
Conservation des ressources naturelles -- Californie -- Santa Cruz (Comté) -- Photographies
Forêts -- Exploitation -- Californie -- Photographies
Redwood -- Industrie -- Californie -- Photographies
Forêts -- Conservation -- Californie -- Photographies
Conservation of natural resources
Forest conservation
Lumbering
Parks
Redwood industry
Big Basin Redwoods State Park (Calif.) -- Pictorial works
California
California -- Big Basin Redwoods State Park
California -- Santa Cruz County
Gage, Henry Tifft -- 1852-1924
Gage, Henry Tifft -- 1852-1924

Note:

taken by Andrew Putnam Hill.
Copy prints. Sempervirens Club of California, 1955.
Andrew Putnam Hill, born in Indiana, was a photographer and painter resident in San Jose, Calif. An early conservation movement leader, he founded the Sempervirens Club in 1900; reactivated in 1968 as the Sempervirens Fund.
Historic Landmarks Commission of the City of San Jose, Calif.

Type:

graphic
Photographs.
Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

photoprint
1 album (90 photographic prints) : black and white ; 29 x 40 cm

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC PIC 1955.008--fALBLOCAL

Origin:

California