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Esser2Album11ath


Image ID: Esser2Album11a
Digital Image Size (in pixels): 173 x 300 pixels
Image Scan Resolution: 75 dpi
Original Image Size: 3 1/16" x 5 5/16" B/W print
Image Title: [Burning slash after logging, North Carolina]
Image Caption: Following logging -- the debris is set afire and burned without control. The remaining undesired smaller sized yellow pines & hard woods are thus destroyed.

[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]
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.