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FHS3308th

Image ID:   FHS3308
Image Date:   [1922]
Image Title:   [Dining tent at forestry school camp.]
Image Caption:   Caption 1: Dining room -- freshman camp.

Caption 2: [Penn State forestry school students eating at picnic tables in camp dining tent, ca. 1922. Two women are seated at the left table, with a small child on a stool between them.]

[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.