Image ID:   FHS3356
Image Date:   [1923]
Image Title:   The Filthy Five.
Image Caption:   Exhibits "D" [FHS3355], "E" [FHS3356], and "F" [FHS3357] serve to illustrate a custom which has been in vogue for years in the school of forestry [at Oregon State Agricultural College]. At the end of each field trip a whisker contest is held, it being an unwritten law that no man may shave during the field trip. "D" represents the "Dirty Dozen," this number being secured by the process of elimination. From the "Dirty Dozen," the "Filthy Five," is chosen by the same process, "E." From this number the King Hobo, "F," is finally selected. Judgment is based upon height growth, density of stand, and extent of area, as well as visibility at 25 feet. [ca. 1923].

[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. 6 Oregon State Agricultural College (Corvallis) photos (image ID# FHS3355-3359, FHS3363) were submitted by Dean George W. Peavy on 8/20/1923. Dean Peavy wrote the following in his correspondence to Graves: "Possibly the more staid and dignified forestry students at Yale would be interested in more strictly technical matters. However, these prints seem to be the ones most readily available at the time."]
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.