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FHS3297th

Image ID:   FHS3297
Image Date:   [1922]
Image Title:   M.A.C. Forestry Summer Camp, Dayhuff Lake.
Image Caption:   [Michigan Agricultural College students on a dock preparing to swim in Dayhuff (now Meauwataka) Lake, probably 1922. Some men are standing/sitting on a tree that reaches out over the water.]

[Photo from the Society of American Foresters Collection: one of a group of early American forestry school images collected in 1923 by Col. Henry S. Graves, then Dean of the Yale School of Forestry, intended for mounting in an album to be placed in the new library building at Yale. 17 Michigan Agricultural College photos (image ID # FHS3288-FHS3304) were submitted by Professor A. K. Chittenden in September of 1923.]

Photographer:   [unknown]
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.