Framed Photograph of Pine Trees
date: label: Date made
content: 1926
name: label: frame maker
content: Bucher, William F.
label: photographer
content: Bucher, William F.
label: photographer
content: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Forest Service
label: photographer
content: Lindsey
label: photographer
content: Varela, A.
label: photographer
content: Block, E.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: These four photographs of pine trees are one of forty-nine framed black and white photographic prints bequeathed to the Smithsonian by William F. Bucher of Washington, D.C. Bucher, a cabinetmaker, framed each photograph in wood of the same species as the tree depicted in the print. The photos were displayed in a special exhibition, <I>Our Trees and their Woods</I> at the United States National Museum in 1931.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The upper left photo shows a white pine tree in the Adirondack Mountains of New York that was taken by A. Varela. The upper right photo is a loblolly pine from North Carolina taken by “Lindsey.” The lower left photo is of a longleaf pine tree near Ocilla, Georgia taken by E. Block. The bottom right photo shows a balsam pine and white spruce that was taken by H.H. Chapman. All photographs come courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service. The frame is made from four woods; the top is made of white pine, the bottom is made of long leaf pine, the left hand side of common pine, and the right side is made of spruce.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: North Carolina
label: Place Made
content: United States: Georgia
label: Place Made
content: United States: Minnesota
label: Place Made
content: United States: New York, Adirondack Mountains
topic: label: Subject
content: Trees
label: Subject
content: frames
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content: Work and Industry: Forestry
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content: Natural Resources
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.115767.32
label: catalog number
content: AG*115767.32
label: accession number
content: 115767
label: maker number
content: 35
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photographs & frame
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (frame material)