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Esser1Album4bth


Image ID: Esser1Album4b
Digital Image Size (in pixels): 300 x 188 pixels
Image Scan Resolution: 75 dpi
Original Image Size: 3 9/16" x 5 8/16" B/W print
Image Title: [Mixed stand of Scotch pine, Rhine River valley, Germany]
Image Caption: The old sandy bed of the Rhine River has been economically put to use and held from shifting by the use of Scotch pine. Scotch pine - old and young stands Rhine River Valley.

[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: 1910-1911
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.