Forest History Society Photograph Collection
Images from "The Dawn of Private Forestry in America, Recollections of a Forester Covering the Years 1895 to 1914," a Manuscript by Carl Alwin Schenck (1868-1955) / FHS367thEAD
Image ID: FHS367
Digital Image Size (in pixels): 218 x 300 pixels
Image Scan Resolution: 75 dpi
Original Image Size: 3 8/16" x 4 11/16" B/W print
Image Title: [Image from Carl Alwin Schenck's 1954? manuscript "The Dawn of Private Forestry in America, Recollections of a Forester Covering the Years 1895 to 1914".]
Image Caption: Primeval stands of white pine on the John Booth limits in Northern Ontario on the Ottawa River. The steeple-shaped tops are those of white fir forming and understory.
[In February 1908 Biltmore Estate forester Carl Schenck attended a Canadian Forestry Congress in Ottawa. While on that trip, he toured the forested estate (seen here) of John Booth in northern Ontario adjacent to the Ottawa River.]
[The Schenck manuscript from which this image is drawn is from the collections of the Forest History Society in Durham, North Carolina. Schenck (1868-1955) was the founder of the Biltmore Forest School on George Vanderbilt's estate in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1898. A revised edition of the Schenck manuscript was published in 1955 by the American Forest History Foundation at the Minnesota Historical Society under the title "The Biltmore Story: Recollections of the Beginning of Forestry in the United States". The 1955 book was reprinted in 1974 by the Forest History Society under the title "The Birth of Forestry in America: Biltmore Forest School, 1898-1913" and in 1998 by the Forest History Society in cooperation with the Cradle of Forestry in America Interpretive Association and the U.S. Forest Service History Program under the title "Cradle of Forestry in America: The Biltmore Forest School, 1898-1913".]
Image Date: [1908]
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.
