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Image ID:  Cary11
Image Date:  June 1919
Image Title:  [Turpentining slash pine and cypress, South Georgia.]
Image Caption:  [Caption 1:] Cogdell, Clinch Co. Georgia. A bay head partly drained. Big cypress; big slash pines (18" x 90') killed by bleeding; slash & cypress reproduction; also gum & abundant grass. Slash & cypress are tall & slim.

[Caption 2: View of stand of pine and cypress behind a barbed wire fence from across a dirt road in Cogdell, Ga., June 1919. Some downed trees visible, farm house and buildings visible at left further down the road.]

[This image is from a collection of 37 black-and-white photographs, most of which were taken by pioneer forester Austin Cary (1865-1936) between 1918 and 1924, during his early years with the U.S. Forest Service. The photographs document forestry and turpentining practices in the pine forests of the southeastern United States.]

Photographer:  Cary, Austin, for the U.S. Forest Service
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.