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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.