Image ID:  Cary7
Image Date:  May 1919
Image Title:  [Fire protection on Georgia farm, 1919.]
Image Caption:  [Caption 1:] Lot 334, Div. 7, Clinch Co., Ga. [west of Cogdell]. Protection versus annual fire. Between field and road not burnt; has palmetto and gallberry 4-5' high and thrifty young timber. Across road shanks cut back, but much timber is down.

[Caption 2: View of agricultural field next to dirt road with wooded areas in background and at right. A single bare snag is at center of image and a car is parked on the road at right. Clinch County, Ga., 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.