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FHS2040th

Image ID: FHS2040
Image Date:
2/26/1931
Image Title:
"A Pictorial Album of the Naval-Stores Industry"
Image Caption:
Caption 1: The old tin was not removed from this worked-out face. Note the way the tin is being imbedded in the healing areas.

Caption 2: DuPont, Georgia. Clinch County (Mikell's land). Poor woods practice in turpentining. Metal apron left in slash pine tree (5 years) after face worked out interfering with healing over. NS-4. Lib. Nos. 5.2121, 5.213 11.

[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: Averell, J. L., 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.