Historical Portrait
Family Photo in front of Giant Sequoia
Archive record
Historic 1901 family photograph of 14 people in front of the famous General Grant Tree in Kings Canyon National Park, California. Public domain.
About this photograph
A family group of fourteen people photographed in front of a giant sequoia in 1901. The archive record identifies the tree as the General Grant Tree in what is now Kings Canyon National Park, California.
The photograph comes from the Tulare County Library's local history collection. Tulare County sits in California's San Joaquin Valley, a farming region that saw heavy settlement in the later nineteenth century and relied on irrigated agriculture. The library's photograph collection largely documents ordinary residents, families, schools and businesses from the area rather than public figures.
The photographer is not known. The record gives no names for the people pictured, their relationships to one another, or the occasion that brought them to the tree.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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