Since the beginning, trees have furnished us with two of life’s essentials, food and oxygen. As we evolved, they provided additional necessities such as shelter, medicine, and tools.
Today, their value continues to increase and more benefits of trees are being discovered as their role expands to satisfy the needs created by our modern lifestyles. Here below is a set of vintage postcards that shows big trees in the early 20th century.
“Giant,” Santa Cruz Big Trees
“Chandelier Tree,” Underwood Park
“The Flat Iron Tree,” Bull Creek Grove
“The Shrine Tree” at River Vista Lodge, Myers, Calif. Dia. 21 ft. Cir. 64 ft. Age 5000 years, on Redwood Highway
52 feet in circumference – Largest tree in Muir Woods Nat’l. Monument, California
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