Forest History Society Photograph Collection
Sample Images: Naval Stores Album / FHS2024th
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Image ID: FHS2024
Image Date: [March
1928]
Image Title: "A
Pictorial Album of the Naval-Stores Industry"
Image Caption: Caption
1: Scraping. At the end of the season scrape -- the hardened portion of resin
adhering to the face -- is collected separate from the gum in the cups (dip).
Approximately half of the turpentine content of fresh gum has evaporated during
the process of scrape formation.
Caption 2: Removing scrape from high faces [in 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: Shipp,
E. S., 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 Vicke
