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FHS273th

Image ID: FHS273
Image Date: July 1915
Image Title: Pisgah Forest.
Image Caption: [Cabin at] Big Creek, [Carl] Schenck's old camp [on the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina. Dr. Schenck (1868-1955) founded the Biltmore Forest School, which operated on the estate from 1898 to 1913.] Twenty-year-old poplar [trees are visible in the image].
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.