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Trees! Trees! Trees!

Album Description

From the blooming of trees in my backyard to the cherry trees blossoming in Washington D.C., trees are found in so many places and in so many forms at the Library of Congress. I love the book on historic trees Nicholson, Katharine Stanley. Historic American trees. [New York, Frye publishing company, 1922] Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/22024036/.

Check out some of the interesting trees I found.

   The song states “I'll not sing of flowers, flags or April Showers but I will sing of trees!” Arbor Day is Friday April 28. Take your class outside or discover the beauty of trees found in the Library of Congress collections. Why not find out each states tree for a fun project or just go out and read the book A Tree is Nice by Janice May Udry. There are a vast number of lessons that you can do with the trees. I love trees and I know your students will too.

If you can add to this album, please do! Let's start a "tree"mendous post on trees.

Spare our trees

Reference note

Summary

  • Poster promoting conservation of trees as a natural resource.

Created / Published

  • Ohio : Federal Art Project, W.P.A., 1938.

Notes

  • -  Date stamped on verso: Aug 17 1938.
  • -  Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).
  • -  Posters of the WPA / Christopher DeNoon. Los Angeles : Wheatly Press, c1987, no. 150
  • -  More information about the WPA Posters is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.wpapos

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

  • cph 3b48810 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b48810

The Song of the trees

Reference note

Created / Published

  • 1918, monographic.
  • None, None, 1918..

Genre

  • notated music

Notes

  • -  From: He didn't want to do it.
  • -  Staff notation. (language)

"Only God can make a tree"

Reference note

Summary

  • Poster promoting conservation of trees as a natural resource.

Created / Published

  • Ohio : Federal Art Project, 1938.

Notes

  • -  Date stamped on verso: Aug 1 1938.
  • -  Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

  • cph 3f05412 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f05412

Wounded trees at Gettysburg

Reference note

Summary

  • Stereograph showing a man lying on the ground surrounded by trees battered by bullets and shells near Culp's Hill, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Created / Published

  • Hartford, Conn. : Taylor & Huntington, No. 2 State St., [between 1863 and 1880]

Notes

  • -  No. 2391.
  • -  Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865.
  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
  • -  Original negative is: LC-B811-2391.

Repository

Digital Id

Pine Tree quilt

Reference note

Created / Published

  • Alleghany County, Virginia, September 1978

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Photographs

Notes

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Bicycle tree, Snohomish, Wash.

Reference note

Created / Published

  • c1905 Oct 9.

Genre

  • Stereographs--1900-1910
  • Photographic prints--1900-1910

Notes

  • -  H67123 U.S. Copyright Office
  • -  No. 505.
  • -  On mount: Views of the Cascade Mountains, Puget Sound, and the Pacific Northwest.
  • -  Copyrighted, 1905, by J.A. Blosser, Snohomish, Wash.
  • -  Title from item.

Repository

Digital Id

  • stereo 1s16595 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.1s16595

Genealogical tree

Reference note

Created / Published

  • [no date recorded on shelflist card]

Notes

  • -  This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card.
  • -  Associated name on shelflist card: Heiss, Geo.
  • -  Check 347 field.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

  • pga 01537 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.01537
  • cph 3b52996 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b52996
  • cph 3a13863 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a13863

Historic American trees,

Reference note

Created / Published

  • New York, Frye publishing company [c1922]

Notes

  • -  Bibliography: p. 5-7.
  • -  Also available in digital form.

[Grammar tree]

Reference note

Created / Published

  • Hartford, Connecticut : [publisher not transcribed], c1853.

Genre

  • Prints

Notes

  • -  General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pga
  • -  Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017.
  • -  Blanchard, Rufus, copyright claimant.
  • -  Category designation on original folder: Visual Teaching Aids.

Repository

Digital Id

'? Kids Book Read Aloud: A TREE IS NICE by Janice May Udry.'

Reference note

'Anne Miranda reads the Caldecott Award winning book, A TREE IS NICE by Janice May Udry. Illustrated by Marc Simont. Ages 4-8. A read aloud book about nature and the love of trees. (?️CLICK SHOW MORE BELOW):

I got to meet Marc Simont, who won the Caldecott Gold Medal for his illustrations for A Tree is Nice, about 25 years ago in Madrid. I took my beloved weather-worn copy of the book for him to sign. The book was over 40 years old and had traveled with me from home to home since childhood. I almost cried when he held it in his hands. I still have the old book, which he dedicated to me, and a new copy I bought which he dedicated to my children. I hope you love this story as much as I do.

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[Hanging poems on a cherry tree]

Teaching Notes

Wonderful activity for April’s Poetry Month.

From the Catbird Seat Poetry at the Library of Congress:

Hanging Poems in Trees: Surround Students with Opportunities to Interact with Poetry

Reference note

Creator(s): Ishikawa, Toyonobu, 1711-1785, artist
Date Created/Published: [1741, printed later]
Summary: Print shows a woman, full-length, standing, hanging poems in a blossoming cherry tree.
Call Number: FP 2 - JPD, no. 1812 (B size) [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes: "石川秀葩豊信" written in Japanese. Title devised by Library staff. Adachi modern reprint (Showa). Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).
Subjects: Women--Clothing & dress--Japan--1740-1750. Beauty--Japan--1740-1750. Poetry--1740-1750. Cherry trees--Japan--1740-1750. Flowers--Japan--1740-1750.

A correct view of the mammoth tree in California, the largest in the world

Reference note

Summary

  • Print shows sightseers looking at the giant sequoia trees at Mammoth Tree Grove, California.

Created / Published

  • Staunton, Va. : Published by D.A. Plecker, c1873.

Genre

  • Lithographs--Color--1870-1880

Notes

  • -  D8460 U.S. Copyright Office.
  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Caption continues: The engraving represents correctly a lithographic view of the "Mammoth Tree Grove" of Caleveras County, California, taken from a daguerreotype. ... "As we gaze in admiring wonder upon these ancient Californians that for 3,000 years have withstood the storms, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions of this mysterious land, we burn to be instructed in the fearful past, and anxiously inquire who will tell to us its history."
  • -  Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1873 by [blank], in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C.
  • -  Copyright stamp on lower left corner.

Repository

Digital Id

  • pga 11906 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.11906

New-York tribune. [volume], April 06, 1913, Image 40

Teaching Notes

What comes from trees? is a wonderful activity to do with young learners. 

Evening star. [volume], April 07, 1946, Image 107

Teaching Notes

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/grapefruit-history-and-drug-interactions

Evening star. [volume], December 06, 1936, Page 13, Image 101

Teaching Notes

Most students will have had some interaction with syrup -- real maple or not. Using syrup as a means to explain the movement of nutrients and water up and down the tree trunk is very effective.