“Eliza Scidmore: The Trailblazing Journalist Behind Washington’s Cherry Trees” by Diana P. Parsell is about Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, 1856-1928, who became the Forrest Gump of her day, bearing ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (1856-1928) was an author, journalist, lecturer, and collector who traveled extensively and helped to bring the Japanese ...

Author Diana Parsell discussed the life of Eliza Scidmore, the globe-traveling journalist who worked to bring Japanese cherry trees to Washington, D.C, in the early 20th century.

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore is seen in this undated portrait. Enchanted by the culture of Japan, by 1894 she had been pestering federal officials for almost a decade to plant some of the gorgeous trees ...

And even though the trees arrived in 1912, the process of bringing them to D.C. took years — and it all started with the request from Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore in 1885.

1885: Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, returning to Washington from her first visit to Japan, approaches government officials to propose that Japanese cherry trees be planted along the reclaimed Potomac ...

But Scidmore leaves behind seven books of travel writing, 17 photo-driven articles in National Geographic magazine, and thousands of blooming cherry trees along the Potomac that continue ...

NEW PUBLICATIONS; THE TRUE JAPAN. JINRIKISHA DAYS IN JAPAN. By Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore. Illustrated. New-York: Harper & Brothers. Share full article June 22, 1891 The New York Times Archives ...

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