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FHS3307th

Image ID:   FHS3307
Image Date:   [1922]
Image Title:   [Forestry professor conducts camp inspection.]
Image Caption:   [Penn State forestry professor John A. Ferguson from behind, gesturing towards a student tent, ca. 1922. Ferguson wrote on the back of the print: "An appropriate photo of the Prof. at this time. Inspection. Note the big stick."]

[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.