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"Friendship Oak on the Campus of Gulf Park College, West Beach, Gulfport, Is One of the Famous Members of the Liveoak Society.... about 450 years old, with height of 70 feet, circumference of trunk 16 feet, diameter of the spread of foliage 120 feet, giving nearly 12,000 square feet of cool shade. On the platform nestling in its huge branches the poet Vachel Lindsay held his classes in English Literature and poetry, for there is space to seat fifty students." View of tree. Side 1.
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"Friendship Oak on the Campus of Gulf Park College, West Beach, Gulfport, Is One of the Famous Members of the Liveoak Society.... about 450 years old, with height of 70 feet, circumference of trunk 16 feet, diameter of the spread of foliage 120 feet, giving nearly 12,000 square feet of cool shade. On the platform nestling in its huge branches the poet Vachel Lindsay held his classes in English Literature and poetry, for there is space to seat fifty students." View of tree. Side 1.
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- Series: 2
- Item: 1894
- Creator(s): Gulfport Printing
- Description: "Friendship Oak on the Campus of Gulf Park College, West Beach, Gulfport, Is One of the Famous Members of the Liveoak Society.... about 450 years old, with height of 70 feet, circumference of trunk 16 feet, diameter of the spread of foliage 120 feet, giving nearly 12,000 square feet of cool shade. On the platform nestling in its huge branches the poet Vachel Lindsay held his classes in English Literature and poetry, for there is space to seat fifty students." View of tree. Side 1.
- Date: 19--
- City/State: Long Beach, Mississippi
- County: Harrison County
- Call Number: PI/2015.0023/Series II
- Filename: 134263-1-postcard.tif