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Image ID:  Cary4
Image Date:  May 1919
Image Title:  [Louisiana longleaf pine stand, 1919.]
Image Caption:  [Caption 1:] Louisiana. Sec. 14 in 2-12. T2 R12, Washington Parish. An ideal seed tree, left in windfall of 1908. Grew an inch radius in last 7 years. Longleaf.

[Caption 2: View from across a dirt road of tall longleaf pine tree surrounded by downed trees, with more pines in background. Unidentified man with a satchel stands at base of tree. Louisiana, May 1919.

[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.