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The Camperdown Elm of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Looking north toward the Lullwater Bridge |
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April 16, 2006 |
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Garry R. Osgood |
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The Camperdown Elm in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City. The tree grows from a cutting presented by Mr. A.G. Burgess to Prospect Park in 1872. It had been snipped from the original mutant elm growing on the grounds of Camperdown House, in Dundee, Scotland, and grafted upon a Wych Elm (Ulmus glabra). In 1968, poet Marianne Moore, engaged with others in a campaign to save notable trees in the park, composed a verse about the Camperdown Elm, calling the squat, outreaching tree "Our crowning curio," a precious oddity. Camera points north toward the Lullwater Bridge and the Boathouse (Prospect Park Audubon Center). The Cleft Ridge Span is behind and to the right of the photographer.
The author believes that this camera station is very close to that used by an ca. 1872 - 1880 stereographic photographer who shot, the author thinks, an image of this elm tree when it was very young. The historical image currently resides in the Robert Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views, Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints & Photographs, The New York Public Library. It is a part of the Stereoscopic views of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York.. See also another view of the Camperdown Elm which depicts the tree somewhat later in the season and from the opposite side looking south.
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