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FHS3314th

Image ID:   FHS3314
Image Date:   [1922]
Image Title:   [Penn State forestry class at summer camp.]
Image Caption:   [Penn State forestry students in class at forestry summer camp, ca. 1922. Students sit in folding chairs in clearing outside dining tent, taking notes from a chalkboard which is titled "Volume by Felled Sample Trees."]

[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.