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FHS3305th

Image ID:   FHS3305
Image Date:   [1922]
Image Title:   [Penn State forestry students doing road work.]
Image Caption:   [Forestry students building a woods road in unknown location, ca. 1922; professor John A. Ferguson walks at left with pipe. Ferguson wrote the following on the back of the print: "Note -- I am not club-footed."]

[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. 14 Penn State photos (image ID # FHS3305-FHS3318) were submitted by Professor John A. Ferguson in January of 1924.]

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.