Image ID: Esser1Album31b
Digital Image Size (in pixels): 300 x 172 pixels
Image Scan Resolution: 75 dpi
Original Image Size: 3 1/16" x 5 5/16" B/W print
Image Title: [Temporary New York forest]
Image Caption: A "temporary forest" type consisting of aspens and birch springing up after logging -- these short lived species act as a nurse or shelter wood for the more permanent type as shown in picture 3 [see "Esser1Album30a" in FHS Image Database] which spring up under this. An old white pine on the right. The following 6 pictures ["Esser1Album29a" - "Esser1Album31b" in FHS Image Database] were taken in the Adirondacks -- forest conditions of which will be seen to contrast strongly with those in Germany.
[This image is from the Jonathan Keith Esser Photo Collection, housed at the Forest History Society in Durham, N.C. Photographs in the collection were taken or collected by Esser (1893-1963), a forester and
coal industry worker from Pennsylvania, during the second decade of the twentieth century. The collection includes scenes documenting Esser’s experiences while a student on Biltmore Forest School field trips to various forested regions of the United States and Europe in 1910 and 1911; 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 while apparently serving in the U.S. Army during World War I.]
Image Date: 1911
Photographer: [Esser, Jonathan Keith]
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.
