Photograph
Muir Locust
| Workers strain to move a heavy limb which has been cut from the large black locust tree which grew along Observatory Drive on the University of Wisconsin campus. A flatbed truck is parked on the street. There is a large split in the trunk, and a broken limb in the crown. Cables can be seen between several branches. The tree was known as the Muir Locust because of its association with the naturalist John Muir from his days as a student at the university. It was judged to be weakened and dangerous and so was removed. |
| Image ID: | 127821 |
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| Creation Date: | 1955 |
| Creator Name: | University of Wisconsin. Agricultural Extension Service. |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | R. Bruce Allison photographs, undated |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | PH 7049.1.4 |
| Original Dimensions: | 8 x 10 inches |
| This image was published in Allison's 1982 book Wisconsin's Famous and Historic Trees, p. 87, and in the 2005 second edition of that book, retitled Every Root an Anchor, p. 77. Image ID: 127819 is a view of this tree before removal. |
| Trees |
| Clothing and dress |
| Hats |
| Work clothes |
| Deterioration |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
| Streets |
| Trucks |
| Manual work |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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