The Wawona tree, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite Valley, California

This is a 1918 photograph of a car full of people driving through a tunnel cut into an ancient, live tree in Yosemite National Park, California.

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  1. What do you notice first in this photograph? Note what else you see, using details from the photo to describe what you think is happening in the image.
  2. How does this photograph make you feel? Why do you think it makes you feel this way?
  3. What might have been left out of the frame? What questions about this topic does the photo raise?

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