This is the Calaveras Big Tree known as Pioneer's Cabin.Gone, but not forgotten, thanks to picture postcards and Vintage Images like these

Here's another view of the Pioneer Cabin Big Tree. This image is available for purchase through All Posters.
View of Pioneers Cabin, Giant Redwood - Calaveras County, CA
12 in. x 16 in.
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This Redwood Stump Was Used As A Garage - the automobile gives away the age of the image

Giant Redwood Stump, California24 in. x 18 in.
Buy This Allposters.com March 2013 ~ I finally discovered WHERE this stump was! Pepperwood, California - about half way between Garberville where I grew up and Eureka where we went to shop once a month. I probably saw this when I was a child, but I don't really remember ... it was a LONG time ago. Anyway, I found a real picture post card that indicates this stump was in Pepperwood. Before the big flood of 1964, Pepperwood was a farming community with dozens of roadside produce stands. My folks knew a couple who ran a little motel and coffee shop - all I can remember is we'd stop and get home made snails, a cinnamon raisin sweet roll made by Em, the lady of the shop. It was a high point of the trip to the "big city" of Eureka for my sibs and I. But the big flood washed out most of the farmers, and the last time I was there only a few places had been restarted, and not much produce was available.

Photo Credit: National Park Service: Historic Roads in the National Park System (The Development of Park Roads) I believe the caption in this image is inaccurate, as the Grizzly Giant is still standing. To read more about the Wawona Tree, visit the National Park Service Page for the Wawona Tunnel Tree.

Wawona Tree in Fine Art

In the Redwoods, 1899 Thomas Hill
9 in. x 12 in.
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This vintage image appears also to be the Wawona Tree. This makes a lovely framed print. Horse-Drawn Carriage Going Through Redwood
12 in. x 8 in.
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Wawona in the 1930's was a popular destination to have one's photograph taken

This photograph has been graciously provided by Tom Simondi. The image is of his mother and grandmother in the 1930's posed in front of the Wawona tree, in the Mariposa Grove within Yosemite National Park . This image is featured on his Mariposa Grove travels to Yosemite page.

Wawona Tree was the last man made drive through tree in Yosemite

This photo was taken by EditorASC and is used under Creative Commons licence. According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, the tunnel through this tree was originally a fire scar, which was enlarged in 1881. Throughout its history thousands of pictures were taken of it by tourists; it was photographed accommodating everything from horse-drawn carriages in the late nineteenth century to automobiles in the 1960s. The tree, however, fell in 1969 under an estimated two-ton load of snow on its crown. The giant sequoia is estimated to have been 2,300 years old. It is now known as the Fallen Tunnel Tree. To learn more about Mariposa Grove and the Fallen Tunnel Tree, visit Mariposa Grove is a Vacation Destination.