A lost icon: The American chestnut and its central place in the eastern landscape
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This 1913 handout image from the U.S. National Archives and Records shows a man performing tree surgery on a valuable cultivated chestnut tree affected by the chestnut bark disease in Westchester, PA, 1913. (U.S. National Archives and Recordsvia AP)This 1915 handout image from the U.S. National Archives and Records provided by the Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight Commission, shows the chestnut wood interior finish of an unspecified building in Pennsylvania. (U.S. National Archives and Records via AP)In this 1920 handout image from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Library, people stand by a large American chestnut tree in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, below Tremont Falls, Tenn. (Great Smoky Mountains National Park Library via AP)
This 1913 handout image from the U.S. National Archives and Records shows a man performing tree surgery on a valuable cultivated chestnut tree affected by the chestnut bark disease in Westchester, PA, 1913. (U.S. National Archives and Recordsvia AP)