Forest History Society Photograph Collection
Sample Images: Naval Stores Album / FHS2014th
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Image ID: FHS2014
Image Date: February
1926
Image Title: "A
Pictorial Album of the Naval-Stores Industry"
Image Caption: Caption
1: As a protective measure against severe accidental, uncontrolled fires most
operators rake the accumulated chips, dead needles, vegetation, and other inflammable
material from the base of each turpentined tree early in the winter and then:-
[caption continued in caption for U.S. Forest Service photo number 254961: "Lightly burn off
the season's accumulated growth of vegetation to remove the bulk of the fuel which
might otherwise feed an uncontrolled fire."]
Caption 2: Raking trees prior to burning. Feb. 1926, Sampson Lake, Slash [pine].
[Florida.]
[Image from "A Pictorial Album of the Naval-Stores Industry", published
13 December 1937 by the U.S. Government Printing Office for the U.S. Department
of Agriculture, Forest Service. The 47-page photo album has an introductory foreword,
a table of contents, a 1-page “History of the Naval-Stores Industry”, and accompanying
captions. The publication contains actual print images that are affixed to pages
with photo corners.]
Photographer: Wyman,
Lenthall, for the U.S. Forest Service
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.
