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FHS857th

Image ID: FHS857
Image Date: 1903
Image Title: [Charcoal kilns.]
Image Caption: Brick charcoal kiln; capacity 1000 cords per year (each kiln). [A man holding a raking tool stands beside the open doors of the kiln. Kilns are visible to either side of this kiln, and what appears to be a raised railroad trestle or a bridge appears immediately behind them.]
Photographer: Gaskill, A., and A. Varela, 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.