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FHS3352th

Image ID:   FHS3352
Image Date:   1923
Image Title:   'Foresters' Circle' in Eucalyptus Grove, University of California campus.
Image Caption:   Where the Forestry Club holds its meetings. Made of eight. 12' redwood logs. Bronze placque [sic] bears the inscription, "Forester's Circle. May the ideals fostered around this campfire play a worthy part in the conservation of the beauty and usefulness of forests. U.C. Forestry Club. Gift of the Union Lumber Company, 1922." [Numerous men, presumably forestry school students/instructors, are seated around the circle.]

[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. 8 University of California-Berkeley College of Agriculture photos (image ID# FHS3347-3354) were submitted by Assistant Fracis X. Schumacher on 8/24/1923.]

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.