Forest History Society Photograph Collection
Sample Images: Naval Stores Album / FHS2047th
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Image ID: FHS2047
Image Date: 1/13/1931
Image Title: "A
Pictorial Album of the Naval-Stores Industry"
Image Caption: Caption
1: After the tree has been selected, the roughest bark at the base of the tree
is smoothed with a broadax. An incision is made with a broadax and maul.
Caption 2: Starke, Florida. Kingsley Exp. tract, Clay County. First step in facing
longleaf pine, using broad axe and maul to make incision for metal gutters. NS-1
T.N.B. Lib. Nos. 5.21212, 5.21217.
[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: Busch,
T. N., 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.
