Image ID: FHS285
Digital Image Size (in pixels):  300 x 194 pixels
Image Scan Resolution: 75 dpi
Original Image Size: 6 4/16" x 10" B/W print 3 15/16" x 4 15/16" negative
Image Title: [Biltmore Forest School picnic.]
Image Caption: [Carl Alwin] Schenck, center, presides over a picnic in the field prepared by his wife, circa 1905. Students are milling around, and Mrs. Schenck appears behind her husband's elbow, mostly blocked by the student standing next to him. [Schenck (1868-1955) founded the Biltmore Forest School on George Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1898. The school closed in 1913.]
Image Date: [1905]
Photographer: [unknown]
Use Restrictions: Permission from the Forest History Society required for any use of this image.
Repository Contact Information: Forest History Society, Inc.; 701 William Vickers Ave., Durham, NC 27701; Tel.: (919) 682-9319; Fax: (919) 682-2349.