Image ID: FHS272
Digital Image Size (in pixels):  300 x 223 pixels
Image Scan Resolution: 75 dpi
Original Image Size: 3 5/16" x 4 7/16" B/W print
Image Title: [Carl Alwin Schenck's home on the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina.]
Image Caption: Dr. Schenck's old home on Pisgah Forest. [Carl Alwin Schenck (1868-1955) was a German forester who founded the Biltmore Forest School on George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1898. Schenck lived on the estate and trained his students in forestry techniques via lectures in a classroom setting as well as through practical management applications conducted on part of the forested estate that is now the Pisgah National Forest.]
Image Date: 12/26/1936
Photographer: Ruth, W. M., 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.