April 29, 2007
American Environmental Photographs 1891-1936
Item Title
Prunus pumila holding [a] dune remnant, Miller, Indiana
Created/Published 1916-04-06
Subjects
United States--Indiana--Lake County
Erosion
Sand dunes
Plants
Botanical (scientific): Prunus pumila
Botanical (common): Great Lakes Sand Cherry
still image
Related Names
Photographer: Fuller, George D. (George Damon), 1869-1961
Medium Glass negatives, 12.6 x 17.6 cm
Digital Collection American Environmental Photographs
Reproduction Number AEP-INN141
Repository
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Source Collection
University of Chicago Department of Botany Records
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~While glancing at the "Indiana-Lake County" photographs and reading their captions I realized most of these places aren't there anymore. The steel mills of Lake County Indiana in the past hundred years leveled miles of dunes, straightened rivers, cut woods and filled ponds and bogs.
I've seen and photographed prunus pumila at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore but I wasn't aware of the plant's name. Also I never pictured the plant "holding" the dune. I have pictured bulldozers, trucks, steam trains, cranes and horse drawn carts hauling away through the years whole dunes but before today the subtle machinations of roots, leaves and stems in the sun & wind on wet, dry and frozen sand had escaped my awareness.
Posted by Stubbornson at April 29, 2007 09:33 PM