Sunday, February 27, 2022

those beautiful elm trees before the Dutch Elm Disease came along, FSA photo in Milwaukee,1941

the homes were beautiful too... I recommend that you click on this to appreciate it full screen size


The disease spread from New England westward and southward, almost completely destroying the famous elms in the "Elm City" of New Haven, Connecticut, reaching the Detroit area in 1950, the Chicago area by 1960, and Minneapolis by 1970. 

Of the estimated 77 million elms in North America in 1930, over 75% had been lost by 1989
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3 comments:

  1. Pip Bip12:23 AM

    would've been a bugger in fall though.

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  2. NOVA Curmudgeon10:22 AM

    This is what our neighborhood streets in upstate NY looked like in the 1950s.

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  3. Unknown2:08 PM

    I can remember them spraying them in Detroit in the sixies. Drove down the street pulling a guy sitting on a sprayer.

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