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The Garland Oak leans outward from the left of this picture, taken in the early 1900s. David Douglas, holding the reins of the horse-drawn rake, was superintendent of grounds for the first thirty years. Virgil Henley, his helper standing at right, served the campus forty years.
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Quercus lyrata

Walter

sec. Vanderbilt 1917

common name: overcup oak
family: Fagaceae
Identified 1917-03 by anonymous

Identification remarks: Vanderbilt Alumnus Magazine 2(5):131 (March 1917) states that the Garland Oak was an overcup oak.

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DataCite DOI for the image:10.5281/zenodo.11011613


Location information for the occurrence documented by this image:

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, US
36.14673° latitude,-86.80305° longitude
Coordinate uncertainty: about 5 m

Location inferred from organism coordinates.


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Intellectual property information about this image:

Image creator: Harry S. Vaughn; created on 1900

Rights statement: Public Domain
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"From the Vaughn Collection, Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives in McGaw, Robert A. 1978. The Vanderbilt Campus: A Pictoral History, p.139."If possible, link to the stable URL for this page.


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anonymous, 1917. The Garland Oak. Vanderbilt Alumnus Magazine 2(5):131. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, US.