Image ID:   FHS3315
Image Date:   [1922]
Image Title:   Ready for the woods.
Image Caption:   [Penn State forestry students at summer forestry camp, ready to head out into the woods, ca. 1922. Students are grouped in front of tents holding a variety of equipment, including axes, crosscut saws, transits, target rods, and measuring instruments. One of the group (left center) is African American. Note on back reads "Anderson 5th from left."]

[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.