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Cary12th

Image ID:  Cary12
Image Date:  June 1919
Image Title:  [Cypress swamp, South Georgia.]
Image Caption:  Cogdell, Clinch Co. Georgia. A cypress swamp cut out and partly drained. Slash pines have come in, about 200 per acre, well distributed. Area growing 2 1/2 feet in height yearly. At 10' high and 8 years old.

[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.