Human history during lifespan of a redwood
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Heading: (California Redwoods)
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Title: The Redwood's Parallel in History
Place Published: No place
Publisher:Pacific Lumber Company
Date Published: 1945
Description:
Author:
Title: The Redwood's Parallel in History
Place Published: No place
Publisher:Pacific Lumber Company
Date Published: 1945
Description:
Pictorial chart. Broadside, sheet size 57.5x36 cm (22½x14¼").
Representation of the historical events which took place during the lifetime of a California redwood, with the foibles of humanity pictured alongside the height the tree would be when they occurred, beginning with Alexander's conquest of the world and the start of the Christian Era, to Mohammed, Charlemagne, Marco Polo, Gutenberg, Galileo, Benjamin Franklin, the rise of Hitler, Pearl Harbor, and the founding of the United Nations, with many more in between. Signed in the plate at lower right, "H.J.A. with apologies to Broughton." OCLC lists two examples, at the University of Southern California and Walla Wall University, in slightly different format.
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Horizontal folds, a little soiling and other slight wear, very good.
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