Redwoods - California
[Artist unknown] :Views of the big trees of Calaveras County, Cal[ifornia]. The largest...
Date: 1850 - 1890
From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook [1856-ca 1890]
Reference: E-207-q-063-3
Description: Drawing of the redwood forest in California. In the foreground is a large tree trunk lying on its side with a ladder resting against it. A man is climbing the ladder while others watch from below. On the left is an octagonal building (or viewing house). Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 105 x 75 mm
Mason, G E (Rev), fl 1880s :Round the round world; photograph album
Date: 1885-1886
By: Mason, George Edward (Rev), 1847-1928
Reference: PA1-f-253
Description: Album of photographs collected by Rev G E Mason on a trip around the world in 1885-1886. Comprises photographs of California, Tasmania, Sydney, Ceylon, Egypt and New Zealand. In 1884 the Bishop of Lichfield recieved a request from the bishops of Christchurch and Auckland, New Zealand, to send clergy to conduct missions in their dioceses. To this end he invited Rev G E Mason, and Rev Charles Bodington to do the job. The two clegymen left Liverpool for the United States on the 4th of July 1885, spent a summer in New Zealand, and returned to England in September 1886. (Info from "Round the Round World on a Church Mission," Rev G E Mason, Society for the promotion of Christian knowledge, London, 1892). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchase, 2005 Transfers: Collection as a whole received into Photographic Archive.