Australia. The tallest trees in the British Empire, Marysville, Victoria / Trompf. – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Australia. The tallest trees in the British Empire, Marysville, Victoria / Trompf., preserved in this vintage poster. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Australia. The tallest trees in the British Empire, Marysville, Victoria / Trompf.
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Few places in Victoria's hill country had a stronger reputation for towering timber in the 1930s than Marysville, and this lithograph makes the claim outright with its title, which promises the tallest trees in the British Empire. Those trees are mountain ash, *Eucalyptus regnans*, whose straight trunks often exceed 90 meters and rank among the tallest flowering plants on earth. The poster was issued by the Australian National Travel Association, a body set up to draw visitors to the country's scenery, and the horseback rider among the forest shows how the bush was pitched to travelers as a place for leisure. The title credits the design to Trompf.
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 102 x 64 cm. |
|---|---|
| Notes | Melbourne : Australian National Travel Association, [c1930] |
| Subjects | Horseback riding--Australia--Marysville (Vic.)--1930. Forests--1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,132 × 5,187 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226594 |
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