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Cary6th

Image ID:  Cary6
Image Date:  May 1919
Image Title:  [Trees damaged by turpentining and fire, Georgia.]
Image Caption:  Lot 334, Div. 7, Clinch Co., Ga. [west of Cogdell]. Detail of preceding [see Cary5]. A 6 1/2" tree (d.b.h.) newly boxed. A freshly boxed tree already down. An 8" tree boxed the second time. An 8" tree in background down after early boxing and fire.

[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.