Forest History Society Photograph Collection Sample Images: Biltmore Forest School (Schenck Manuscript) / FHS294th

Image ID: FHS294
Image Date: [ca. 1890s-1910s]
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: Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), landscape architect of the Biltmore Estate, did more than anyone else in the closing decades of the [nineteenth] century for the aesthetic development of the United States. He is the creator of New York's Central Park; of the park systems of Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Louisville, and Milwaukee; and it was Olmsted who designed the grounds surrounding the National Capitol in Washington, D.C.

[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".]

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.