Lot 42: Photograph of the California Redwoods, framed

Original black and white photograph taken in Redwood National Forest, showing a small wooden bridge in the foreground and a single horse-drawn buggy on a dirt road along with the big trees in the foreground. Lettered in the negative "Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 14108" and titled "In the Redwoods." 12 3/4 x5" with paper backing and period wooden frame.

The Pillsbury Picture Company was founded one month before the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire in 1906 by Arthur Clarence Pillsbury (1870-1946). They were the largest distributor of postcards on the west coast for the first part of the twentieth century. Pillsbury owned and ran the Studio of the Three Arrows in Yosemite Valley from 1896 to 1928, where the first time-lapse movie of flowers blooming was produced and filmed. He is also credited for several photographic inventions, including the panorama camera in 1897, the time-lapse camera in 1912, the microscopic motion picture camera in 1913, the first X-ray motion picture camera in 1917, the first color motion picture in 1923, and the first underwater motion picture camera.

[c. 1910]

Three small white streaks to lower left corner area of photo, else near fine.

Place: [Yosemite Valley]