Forest History Society Photograph Collection
Sample Images: Naval Stores Album / FHS2067th
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Image ID: FHS2067
Image Date: 12/26/1933
Image Title: "A
Pictorial Album of the Naval-Stores Industry"
Image Caption: Caption
1: Careful, accurate tree and yield measurements are the first requirements of
sound investigative technique. The photograph shows the method used for measuring
gum yield from individual experimental trees.
Caption 2: Baker County, Florida. Olustee Experimental Station, Compartment 15-L.
Lib. Nos. 5.21214, 5.21217. Type of stand, scales and cup used to make daily weighings
of gum flow.
[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: Harper,
V. 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.
