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FHS291th

Image ID: FHS291
Digital Image Size (in pixels):  249 x 149 pixels
Image Scan Resolution: 75 dpi
Original Image Size: 2 5/16" x 3 5/16" color negative
Image Title: [Biltmore Forest School schoolhouse replica.]
Image Caption: [Replica of the schoolhouse used by Carl Alwin Schenck (1868-1955) at his Biltmore Forest School on George Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. The forest school operated from 1898 to 1913. The replica building, the stone commemorative marker visible to the side of the building, and other interpretive features are today part of the Cradle of Forestry in America national historic site in the Pisgah National Forest near Asheville.]
Image Date: [no date]
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.