Guide to the Jonathan Keith Esser Collection, 1899 - 1920
Abstract:
The Jonathan Keith Esser Collection contains letters written by and photographs taken or collected by Jonathan Keith Esser (1893 - 1963), a Pennsylvania forester and coal industry worker who graduated from the Biltmore Forest School in 1911. The materials date from 1899 to 1920 (bulk 1910 - 1911) and primarily document Esser's training while a forestry student under the tutelage of Biltmore Forest School director Carl Alwin Schenck (1868 - 1955). Esser's correspondence consists of five letters he wrote to his family while on Biltmore Forest School field trips to various forested regions of the United States and Europe in 1910 and 1911. Photographs in the collection document the training Esser received while on said field trips; his work while a member of a U.S. Forest Service reconnaissance team that surveyed forest conditions in the southern Appalachian Mountains region of the United States during 1912; and his experiences while serving in the U.S. Army during the World War I era.
- Contact Information:
- Forest History Society
Library and Archives
701 William Vickers Avenue
Durham, North Carolina
27701-3162 USA
Phone: (919) 682-9319
Fax: (919) 682-2349
Email: coakes@duke.edu
URL: http://www.foresthistory.org - Processed by
- David G. Havlick
- Date Completed
- May, 2002
- Encoded by
- Michele A. Justice
Descriptive Summary
- Creator
- Esser, Jonathan Keith, 1893 - 1963.
- Title
- The Jonathan Keith Esser Collection, 1899 - 1920
- Extent
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- 4 photograph albums, 1 envelope of photographs, and 1 file folder of correspondence;
- ca. 6.5 linear feet
- Location
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Forest History Society Archivist/Librarian Cheryl Oakes.
Information for Users
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of Item], Jonathan Keith Esser Collection, Library and Archives, Forest History Society, Durham, North Carolina.
- Copyright Notice
- The Forest History Society owns copyright to this collection. Individuals obtaining materials from the Forest History Society Library and Archives are responsible for using the works in conformance with United States copyright law as well as any donor restrictions accompanying the materials.
- Processing Information
- The correspondence series includes hyperlinks to digital representations of individual letters. Electronic transcriptions of the text were produced in Microsoft Word 2000. Embedded within the Word files at the end of each transcription are 150 dpi True Color scans of each page of correspondence. Adobe Acrobat .pdf files were produced as the final output. The hyperlink "See Transcription" tags below link to the .pdf files. In the photograph series, thumbnail images were scanned at 75 dpi with a maximum pixel size limitation of 300 pixels imposed, and digital surrogate images were scanned at 150 dpi with a maximum pixel size limitation of 700 pixels imposed. Supplemental descriptive data appearing with the digital surrogates was drawn from the Forest History Society's Image Database, which contains catalog records for images in the Society's collections. Information presented in [square brackets] indicates that the cataloger supplied the data.
Biographical Note
Born in 1893 in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania (renamed Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, in 1954), J. Keith Esser was the son of Isabelle (Simpson) and George W. Esser, a postmaster and prominent figure in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, politics. Esser's family had strong ties to the local coal business, which eventually would lure Keith back to the region. Keith's older sister, Mary, married Truman "Trot" Dodson II, who owned a nearby coal mine, and for a time Keith's father also owned a coke (coal) business in Wise County, Virginia.
Unlike most of his peers at the Biltmore School who were oriented toward careers in the private sector of the timber industry, Keith was interested in working for the U.S. Forest Service. After completing his year with the Biltmore Forest School in 1911, Keith Esser continued to pursue his interests in forestry for several more years and appears to have met with success in his career ambitions. In the Fall 1911 edition of the Biltmore School's Biltmore Doings alumni notes, the following entry appears, "... and J.K. Esser who have finished their course, have begun their 'apprenticeship' with the Smith-Powers Logging Company of Marshfield [Oregon]. Mr. Esser will enter the Forest Service on the Umpqua Reserve later on." Subsequent editions of the Biltmore alumni newsletter trace several more moves by Esser. The January 1912 issue reports, "J.K. Esser (Biltmore 1911) is working for the Chestnut Blight Commission at Johnstown, Pa.," and the June 1912 issue includes the notation, "The Degree of Bachelor of Forestry was given, upon completion of the statutory conditions, to ... J.K. Esser, employed by the U.S. Forest Service." One of Esser's photo albums also documents this time, as a handwritten caption in the front of the album states, "Note - Photos taken in 1912 on forest reconnaissance work of U.S. Forest Service on lands to be included in the S. Appalachian forest reserves."
After 1912, the path of Keith Esser's life grows less clear. A number of loose photos in this collection depict scenes of World War I-era camps and military maneuvers, but there is no clear sign that Esser saw action overseas. He may have been part of the 20th Engineer Regiment (Forestry) that set up logging operations and sawmills in France to supply the war effort, but this regiment was the largest in the U.S. Army with more than 20,000 men in thirteen battalions, and the collection includes no reference to confirm Esser's role. One photo shows the crippled ship Herbert L. Pratt, which was mined by a German submarine on 3 June 1918 a few miles off the Delaware coast, but whether Esser actually took the photo or made it any farther east than this during the war remains uncertain.
Back in Pennsylvania, J. Keith Esser married Grace Brinton, a native of Milton, Pennsylvania, and the daughter of George Jolley. Grace was seven years the junior of her husband and proceeded to outlive him by more than thirty years. Keith and Grace Esser did not have children and left little record of Keith's post-forestry adult life. A Directory of Alumni of the Biltmore Forest School printed in 1946 includes no mention of J. Keith Esser. Obituaries reporting his death on 16 February 1963 state that Esser was a retired coal company operator who had been active with the Boy Scouts of America, serving as the first scoutmaster in Carbon County. He built a log cabin at Split Rock Lodge and later donated this to the Boy Scouts. His widow, Grace, died in 1996 in a retirement home in Philadelphia, where she had earlier been employed by First Pennsylvania Bank. Both Essers are buried in a family plot at the Mauch Chunk Cemetery in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains correspondence and photographs produced by Jonathan Keith Esser (1893 - 1963) while he was a student on Biltmore Forest School field trips to Germany and various forested regions of United States, including the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast. The correspondence dates from 1910 to 1911 and contains a couple of undated letters. Esser composed one of the letters on 30 October 1910 while in Cadillac, Michigan, and wrote the other letters while in Lindenfels and Darmstadt, Germany, in late 1910 and early 1911. His mother was the recipient of most of the letters, although one of the letters is addressed to Esser's sister, Mary Dodson. In the letters Esser describes his impressions of Biltmore Forest School director Dr. Carl Alwin Schenck; his perceptions of German society; and his analysis of the forestry operations he observed firsthand in Germany and Michigan.
There are 418 images dating from 1899 to 1920 included in the collection. The images reside in four photo albums and a single envelope in the Forest History Society Archives. Three of the albums contain photographs and postcards documenting Esser's experiences while on Biltmore Forest School field trips to Michigan, North Carolina, the Adirondack region of New York State, and forested areas in Germany, especially the Spessart, Saxony, and Black Forest regions. The fourth album contains images from a U.S. Forest Service reconnaissance survey of the southern Appalachian region of the United States; Keith Esser was a member of the survey team. Photographs housed in the envelope depict World War I-era military training scenes as well as a few images from a Biltmore Forest School field trip. All of the photographs are black-and-white images; a few of the postcards are colorized.
Organization of Collection
The collection is divided into a Correspondence series and a Photographs series. Each series level "Scope and Content Note" includes descriptive information about the materials in each series as well as electronic links to digital representations of individual items.
Also available for browsing is a complete Photo Gallery that includes digital representations of all photographs and postcards from the Jonathan Keith Esser Collection. The gallery consists of index pages displaying thumbnail images with links to pages containing larger digital images and descriptive data.
Online Catalog Headings
- Biltmore Forest School -- History.
- Esser, Jonathan Keith, 1893 - 1963.
- Foresters -- United States -- Biography.
- Forestry schools and education.
- Forests and forestry -- Germany -- Black Forest.
- Forests and forestry -- Germany -- Saxony.
- Forests and forestry -- Germany -- Spessart.
- Forests and forestry -- Michigan -- History.
- Forests and forestry -- New York (State) -- Adirondack Mountains Region -- History.
- Forests and forestry -- North Carolina -- History.
- Schenck, Carl Alwin, 1868 - 1955.
- United States. Forest Service -- Officials and employees.
- World War, 1914 - 1918.
Detailed Description of Collection
1 file folder; 5 items
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence of J. Keith Esser composed while he was a Biltmore Forest School student on field trips to forested regions of Germany and Michigan in 1910 and 1911. In the letters, which he wrote to his mother (Isabelle Simpson Esser) and sister (Mary Dodson), Esser describes his everyday experiences, his observations of forests and forestry practices in the various geographic regions he visited, and his impressions of fellow students and Biltmore Forest School director Carl Alwin Schenck.
For each item in this series, a summary description is provided along with a hyperlink leading to a full transcription and digital scan of the item presented in Adobe Acrobat .pdf file format. The transcriptions include the author's original spelling and phrasing verbatim without any editorial correction.
Description: Keith Esser composed this 8 - page handwritten letter to his mother, Isabelle Simpson Esser, on stationary sized 8 12/16" x 11" and preprinted with "Hôtel 'zum Odenwald', Lindenfels i.O." across the top edge. The letter's accompanying envelope is addressed as follows: "Mrs. George W. Esser, Mauch Chunk Morea Colliery, Pennsylvania, USA, Via England." Esser was a Biltmore Forest School student on his first field trip to Europe when he composed this correspondence. In it he describes his initial impressions of Germany, commenting on such things as his accommodations, German social customs, the natural and built landscape of Germany, and some of his interactions with Biltmore Forest School director Carl A. Schenck.
Description: In this correspondence to his sister Mary Dodson, Keith Esser discusses such topics as: a dinner party he attended at Dr. and Mrs. Schenck's house; the accommodations he and several other students found in Darmstadt, Germany; what he learned about planting conifers through his field work; general impressions of German society; and the use of coal in Germany. Esser wrote this 14 - page letter on plain paper stationary sized 5 12/16" x 9".
Description: This 2 - page letter Esser sent to his mother, Isabelle Simpson Esser, includes very brief sentences referring to a variety of topics, including: news discussed in his mother's previous letters to him; his mother's impending operation; plans for an upcoming weekend excursion to Switzerland; a Wagner opera he attended; and his negative impression of the German people. Keith Esser composed this letter, apparently while in Darmstadt, Germany, on stationary sized 8 12/16" x 10 10/16" and preprinted with "Hotel-Restaurant 'Darmstädter Hof', Rudolf Doll" on the top left corner.
Description: This letter consists of four pages of stationary sized 8 12/16" x 10 10/16" and preprinted with "Hotel-Restaurant 'Darmstädter Hof', Rudolf Doll" in the top left corner. The first page begins with text that continues from a previous page that is missing. Keith Esser composed the letter with ink, but the first page has a number "3" and "letter to Keith's mother" written on it in pencil. The correspondence focuses on a lengthy discussion of Esser's thoughts about being a Biltmore Forest School student. Esser discusses his mental and physical health; the rigors of forestry field work; benefits of the school's emphasis on practical field work over traditional theoretical studies; his travel itinerary; and the apparent handicap of Biltmore Forest School training for students more interested in government employment than in working for lumber companies in the private sector.
Description: Although undated, this letter has "In Camp #7 - Cadillac, Mich" written on the top right-hand corner of the first page, suggesting that Keith Esser composed this letter while on a Biltmore Forest School field trip there in either 1910 or 1911. In this letter that he wrote to his mother, Esser discusses his forestry field experiences in Cadillac, Michigan, as a Biltmore Forest School student. Topics covered include: traveling across country from Pennsylvania to Michigan; the size of his class; sleeping accommodations in the camp; and the daily routine of lectures and practical field work. Esser wrote this 8 - page letter on plain paper stationary sized 5 12/16" x 9".
[Return to Descriptive Summary]
4 photo albums and 1 envelope; 418 items
Scope and Content Note
Photographs and postcards in this series primarily document (1) Biltmore Forest School field trip excursions in Europe and the United States during 1910 and 1911; (2) work conducted for a U.S. Forest Service reconnaissance survey of the southern Appalachian region of the United States in 1912; and (3) U.S. Army field training during the World War I era.
Thumbnail digital representations of images from Esser's photo collection are presented below along with brief caption information. The [Digital Surrogate] links to a larger digital image with more complete cataloging information.
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Afternoon mist in Black Forest, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Biltmore School group photo, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Clearcutting in Saxony, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Clearcut in Saxony, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Log piles, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Landscape patterns, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Separation between cutting units, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Forest labor houses, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Leaving for the Spessart Mountains, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Heidelberg city forests, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Stacked railroad ties, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [German wood yard.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Masonry splash dam, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Gang saw, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Horizontal piston saw, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Snow-influenced trees, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Larch in snow, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Salvaged firewood, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Beech forest, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Beech trunks, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Plymouth Harbor, England.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Beech-spruce planting.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Spruce on hillside, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Redwoods in Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [White pine in Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Conifer row in Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Conifer row with people, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Conifers planted in Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Pressler bust.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Bust of Heinrich von Cotta at the Tharandt forest academy in Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Field trip in snow, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Three German crooks.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Tim at Frankenstein Castle.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Stork's nest, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Heidelberg, Germany, from the castle.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Heidelberg terrace farms.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [German street carnival.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Lake Clear, New York.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Horse sled trip, New York.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Electric locomotive, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Neckar River near Heidelberg, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Adirondack forest cutting, New York.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Mill dam in New York.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Temporary New York forest.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Odenwald Mountains near Lindenfels, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Maple/Scotch pine plantation, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Mixed stand of Scotch pine, Rhine River valley, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Firewood in Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Scotch pine plantation, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Tree felling machine, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Logging in the Black Forest, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Diseased fir, Black Forest, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Tree line, Black Forest, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Peeling logs, Black Forest, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Black Forest ridge, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Black Forest logs on railcars, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Boom of steam cable log loader at work in eastern North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Steam cable log loader and crew in North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Burning slash after logging, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [North Carolina cabin with mud and stick chimney.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Biltmore Forest School traveling by train in North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Yellow pine mill and floating logs.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Silo burner at yellow pine mill.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Steam set carriage of double-cutting band saw.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Saw wood stacked.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Cleared forest and girdled trees.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Erosion problems.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Cummer Diggins Camp, Cadillac, Michigan.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Cooks at Cummer Diggins Camp, Michigan.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Wind storm damage.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Big trees damaged by wind storm, Michigan.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Beech damaged by wind storm, Michigan.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Wind storm damage, Michigan.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Trees uprooted by wind storm, Michigan.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Tent nearly damaged by wind throw in Michigan.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Michigan hemlock.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Lunch time near Antioch township, Michigan.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Lunch on the Biltmore Estate.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Early auto fording a stream.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [High wheelers hauling logs.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Using High Wheelers to haul logs.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Gear driven locomotive hauling logs.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Biltmore School group on railcar.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [School group arrives at camp in Michigan.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Unloading at camp, Michigan.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Forest land cleared for farming.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Forest cleared for farmlands, Michigan.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Biltmore Forest School group on traincar, Michigan.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Maple-lined Granite Street, Cadillac, Michigan.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Michigan lumbertown panorama.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [New York State Forest Nursery.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [New York State Forest Nursery.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Seedling and transplant beds.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Pisgah Range, Vanderbilt Estate.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Greased log chute, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Greased log skid in action in North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Skidding logs by horse in North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Skidding large logs by horse in North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Hauling logs by locomotive in North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Sawmill, western North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Log rafts on the Ohio River.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Biltmore Forest School at Camp Perry, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Dr. Schenck lecturing in the trees, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Tent crew at Camp Perry, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [High Wheeler skidding logs, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Logging with a High Wheeler in North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Steam skidding loblolly pine in eastern North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Older, smaller High Wheelers, in North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Steam cable skidder in North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Foresters' housing in Saxony, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Biltmore Forest School group in Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Saxony cutting unit, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Saxon spruce mill, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Saxon spruce forests, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Pine regeneration.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Pine plantation in snow, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Nassau felling machine, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Scotch pine plantation, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Scotch pine thinnings, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Flowering dogwood.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [French castle ruins.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Clearcutting near Eberstadt, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Pine cutting, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Yellow pine stands, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Scotch pine plantation, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Biltmore School field trip, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Black Forest stand, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Natural forest regeneration in Germany's Black Forest.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Black Forest timberline, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Spessart oaks, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Spessart beech and oaks, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Large oak tree in the Spessart Mountains region of Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Irish peat bed valley.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Winter trudge, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [White pine seedling.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [German beech, birch, and spruce.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Coppice system near Karlsruhe, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Coppice system with retained trees, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Dense spruce stand, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Red oak seedlings.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Scotch pine with oak and beech, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Maples with spruce, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [American white pine in Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Scotch pine near Darmstadt, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Horizontal saw, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Petrified forest, Arizona.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Vertical gang saw, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Lumber pile, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Railroad tie piles, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Ferns beneath pine and beech, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Snow break, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Stacks of wood, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Beech plantation, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Scotch pine, beech, and basswood plantation, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [German tree plantation.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Spruce and beech plantations, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [German peasants carrying wood.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [German cutting standards.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Scotch pine and beech, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Holland-America Line dock, Rotterdam, Netherlands.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Near Saranac Lake, New York.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Mixed woods in the Adirondacks, New York.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Adirondack mill pond, New York.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Upper St. Regis Lake, New York.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [An old sugar camp, New York.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Biltmore Forest School group photo, New York.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Michigan hardwoods.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Schenck women with big wheel.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Cutting of Saxony spruce, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Big wheel hauling log.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Horses with high wheeler, Michigan.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Stacking logs, Michigan.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Forests converted to farmlands.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Wind storm damage, Michigan.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Southern loblolly pine.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Southern longleaf pine.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Longleaf pine turpentining.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Big wheel and log in New Bern, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Steam cable loader with pine log at work in the southern United States.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Saxony spruce, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Milling process for yellow pine.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Southern pines in storage.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Cypress trees.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Biltmore Forest School students lounging at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [The Pisgah Range, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Grassy bald in the Pisgah Range, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Cabin in North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [North Carolina logging.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Loading logs in North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Southern Applalachian Mountains scene.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Castle Schwartzenberg, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Post-logging fuel loading.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [The end of the flume.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Hardwoods moving down a greased-log chute in the southern Appalachian Mountains.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Hauling logs by narrow gauge railroad.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Spruce and Port Orford cedar in Curry County, Oregon.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Saxony spruce second growth, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Saxony spruce cutting unit, Germany.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Farmland near Bland, Virginia.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Children working at stave mill.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Wagon trip out from hemlock bottom.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Toe River, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railroad route in Yancey County, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Stream-bottom settlements.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Erosion near Holston River, Virginia.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Shoe-string erosion.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Abandoned farm and soil erosion in eastern Tennessee.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Erosion on gentle slope in eastern Tennessee.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Stream bottom showing flood damage in western North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Panorama of western North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [North Carolina mountains panorama.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Balsam Mountains, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Eastern Tennessee white pines.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Blue Ridge Mountains.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Blue Ridge panorama.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [View of the Black Mountains in North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [View toward Mt. Mitchell.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Footlog stream crossing.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Camp at Unaka Springs, Tennessee.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Esser's crew, Tennessee.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Unaka Springs, Tennessee.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Esser's crew at Camp Hampton, Tennessee.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Railroad along the Nolichucky River in Tennessee.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Oak and chestnut staves.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Chestnut oak in shed.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Mountain folks with camera.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Onlookers in Doe River camp, Tennessee.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [White oak, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [U.S. Forest Service survey crew preparing to leave Erwin, Tennessee.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [White Rock camp, Tennessee.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Beech camp in Unicoi County, Tennessee.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Beech camp work tents.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Jim, the cook for a U.S. Forest Service forest surveying crew working in the southern United States.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Lumber company baseball game.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Johnson with fish stringer.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [North Carolina stream.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Car and horse crossing an unidentified body of water somewhere in the southern United States.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Steam engine hauling logs.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Logging railroad at 6000' in North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Steeply graded railroad.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Nolichucky River, Tennessee.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Thick forest growth after cutting.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Erosion after cutting.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Southern Appalachian forest.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Cutover and burned forest.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Tennessee carnival.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Jousters at carnival.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Ringing the bell at carnival.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Athletic fields at Big Stone Gap, Virginia.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Old waterwheel, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Park-like oak stands.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Cattle grazing grassy balds.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [View from top of Rough Butt Bald.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Mica mine, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Forest clearing and erosion.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Hiking in snow on Mt. Mitchell.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Camp at Unicoi, Tennessee.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Unaka Springs and the Nolichucky River in Tennessee.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Nolichucky River entering its gorge.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Working in the office, Erwin, Tennessee.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Typical wood plank home of folk living in the mountain valleys of Virginia in the 1910s.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Indian Creek Fishing Club, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Falls on Club House stream.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Club House stream pool.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Nolichucky River Valley, Tennessee.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Falls on Indian Creek.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Indian Creek stream-cut rock.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [A cove stream in deep shade.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Old growth hemlock.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Old growth camp, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Yellow poplar in cove.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Johnnie Keyes and cove chestnut.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Virginia family portrait.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Man with rattlesnake.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Man with old log cabin.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Cooking and eating tents.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Nolichucky River entering its gorge.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Men with large logs.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Estimating red oak.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Oak and dogwood forest.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Bland County, Virginia.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [White oak in coves.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [First camp cook tents.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Chestnuts sprouting from stump.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Yellow pine killed by fire.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Second growth chestnut and red oak.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [High tension lines near Bluefield, West Virginia.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Grazing on grassy balds at 4000 ft.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [The Blue Ridge at Dry Gap.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Mallet Locomotive on the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railroad.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Rocky Gap of the Blue Ridge.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Appalachian forest view.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Broken knobs in Appalachian Mountains.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Edge of the southern Appalachian Mountains.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Power lines and second camp.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Rhododendron thickets in the southern Appalachian Mountains.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Man resting on cot.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Third camp on mineral spring hotel site in the southern Appalachian Mountains.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Bumpy buckeye tree.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Automobile fording a stream.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Indian Creek lunch break.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Brushy undergrowth following fires.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [White oak second growth.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Buck rail fence up steep hillside.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Regenerating white pine.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Hammock swing in camp.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Large red oak in coves.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Saturday night camp musicians.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Measuring sprout chestnut.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Red oak and chestnut regrowth.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Nolichucky River, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Landscape with town by lake.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Spectators at an unidentified race track.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Canyon with bridge.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Waterfalls and river.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Hotel near Paupock River.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [River canyon with cascades.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Lake and woods.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Bedrock with fence.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Boat on smooth lake.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Lake and forested hills.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Roadside stands.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Ladies' picnic.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Lake scene from bow of boat.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Water skiing on lake.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [View down rocky canyon with river.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Group gathering and pavilion.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Family in canoe.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Trees and lake.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Motor launch on lake.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Herbert L. Pratt sinking off the Atlantic coast.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Motor launch at dock.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Group picnic.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Au Sable gorge.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Crowd with grandstand tentss.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Conveyer derrick on rail.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Logged mountain top.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Youngsters in camp.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Stone building and man walking.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [View of Pigeon River valley.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Logged hardwoods and cedar.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Forest scene with large snag.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Ridge top logging.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Paper pulping operation, Tennessee/Georgia state line.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Biltmore School field trip, North Carolina.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Road near Davis Gap.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Spruce forests.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Military camp scene.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Military camp line.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Building military camp road.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Military camp oven.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Furled tents.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Military training in camp.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Portrait of young soldier.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Firing range at military camp.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Automobile beneath wooden tripod.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Dousing fire at military camp.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Artillery camp scene.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Slinging dirt in military camp.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Military camp tents.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Military exercise.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Soldiers in camp.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Forest scene with soldiers.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Military camp scene.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Soldiers in forest and field.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Soldiers standing in field.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Soldiers at rest in field.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Food line at military camp.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Military camp field with troops.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Food line in military camp.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Soldiers marching down street.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Bagging hay in military camp.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Soldiers in front of tents.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Soldiers resting in field.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Fences and soldiers in field.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Vehicles in military camp.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Soldiers resting along trail.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Small military camp tents.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Soldiers bathing.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Military picnic lunch.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Military camp with tents.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Military avenue with tents.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Military hats in field.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Soldiers lying in field.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Furled tents with men.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Soldiers packing.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Soldiers on firing range.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Group portrait of soldiers.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Soldiers moving through woods.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Digging in camp.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Sign on trunk, "See Roots Above".]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Biltmore floatplane.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Military horses.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Camp incinerator with soldier.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Military camp bedrolls.]
[Digital Surrogate]Image Title: [Military camp boiler.]
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