Image ID:   FHS3316
Image Date:   1909
Image Title:   The first class in forestry - 1909.
Image Caption:   [The first class of Penn State forestry students at work in the snowy woods; four men are cutting a log with axes and a crosscut saw while a fifth measures a tree at right. All are wearing matching plaid coats. Wooden building visible through trees in background. 1909.]

[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.