Forest History Society Photograph Collection
Sample Images: Naval Stores Album / FHS2029th
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Image ID: FHS2029
Image Date: January
1929
Image Title: "A
Pictorial Album of the Naval-Stores Industry"
Image Caption: Caption
1: The yields of turpentine produced during one season's chipping from different
sizes of trees. Studies have shown that trees smaller than 9 inches in diameter
at 4 1/2 feet above ground usually are worked at a loss.
Caption 2: Discs from 14, 12, 9 1/2, 7 1/2, 5 1/2" trees with turpentine
yields for 1 year's work in pts. & 1/2 pts. [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.
