Nurserymen Bookshelf

California Association of Nurserymen

• First meeting      1911 Photo of participants, Los Angeles, November, in PRP
• Second Meeting 1912 1912, Oakland
• Third Meeting    1913, Fresno
• Fourth Meeting  1914, San Diego
• Fifth Meeting     1915, San Francisco, August 12-14, at the California Nursery Co.

Pacific Nurserymen

• 1911, San Jose, June 21-23
• 1912, Tenth, Salt Lake City, June 4-6, GR is abroad

Magic Lantern slide shows for the PPIE

From Branson DeCou collection, U.C. Santa Cruz.
This is advertising the "Bowls of Joy".

Branson DeCou was a photographer and travelogue lecturer who travelled the world from 1911 to 1941.

I ran across one of his PPIE slides on a somewhat sketchy Russian website. Luckily it had the "Courtesy Special Collections, U.C. Santa Cruz" so I eventually tracked it down to UCSC. 

The DeCou collection of 8000 slides has about 70 of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. They are incredible.

My Favorite PPIE images

From UC Berkeley page with map and this from International Harvester.

I have spent hours and hours (and hours) looking through PPIE pictures for photos related to the Avenue of Palms, Horticulture Palace, the California Nursery, and George Roeding. There are several places that just are so fun that I will go back and look at them periodically.

Avenue of Palms

GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator

I've been stereogramminating all of the palm stereographs that I can find with the New York Library's Stereograminator.

So when I saw this little guy standing in the "Avenue of Palms" in Los Angeles in Jared Farmer's book Trees in Paradise, I knew I had seen him before in a stereograph.

The title was "Avenue of Palms, Los Angeles, California. 1870-1909 1870?-1909?"

So what was the date and where was this?

Biking to SF after 1906 earthquake

This is quite an extraordinary journal - Our Bicycle travels to San Francisco on the Main Highway At That Time, volume II.

Volume I is The Earthquake Story of Stanford University.

Both good places to see where palm trees are growing in 1906.

Bancroft has put a nice wrapper around their earthquake collection.

Golden Gate view 1860's

Calisphere

I think we are looking at the future site of the PPIE, perhaps 50 years before. "The Presidio and Golden Gate from Russian Hill" is the title that shows up if you enlarge the photo.

Hardly any trees!

Everyone else was on the move, too

Oakland Tribune, July 14, 1915