Alternatively titled The Three Guardsmen, the reworking of the title to this photograph plays off the 1844 French historical adventure novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, in which the 3 main characters are known as the three inseparables, photographer Sigismund Blumann has a bit of fun projecting and substituting the names of the novels musketeers: Athos, Porthos and Aramis, for a standing row of towering redwood trees in Washington’s Rainier National Park. The scene has been further enhanced with hand-coloring by the photographer.

Published: Cover: Camera Craft: November, 1926; Frontispiece: Photo Art Monthly: February, 1934