FALLEN MONARCH. MARIPOSA GROVE OF BIG TREES. YOSEMITE, CALIFORNIA.

Description

A wonderful old postcard of “California Big Trees – Coaching in the Redwoods.” Shows a stage coach full of people on Fallen Monarch in the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, Yosemite. Published by Cardinell-Vincent, San Francisco (#3023). Not mailed or written on. (See scans of front and back.)
I believe this image was taken by George Fiske (1835-1918). The image is of the Fallen Monarch in the Lower section of the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, Yosemite National Park, California. There is a stage (mud wagon), full of people, hitched to a six horse team on top of the Fallen Monarch (notice white horse just in front of the driver and the branch behind the rear wheel). A classic photograph that must have been taken before 1902. According to Shirley Sargent (Page 52 in “Yosemite’s Historic Wawona”) Henry Washburn (1836-1902), Wawona Hotel operator, is holding the reins. The famous California artists Thomas Hill (1829-1908) is seated in the front seat at right (white beard) and Hills’ daughter, Estella Hill Washburn, who had married John Washburn, is standing behind. (see cropped image of a real photo postcard I used to own for closer view of wagon).
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