Forest History Society Photograph Collection
Images from "The Dawn of Private Forestry in America, Recollections of a Forester Covering the Years 1895 to 1914," a Manuscript by Carl Alwin Schenck (1868-1955) / FHS341thEAD
Image ID: FHS341
Digital Image Size (in pixels): 300 x 198 pixels
Image Scan Resolution: 75 dpi
Original Image Size: 3 4/16" x 5 2/16" B/W print
Image Title: [Image from Carl Alwin Schenck's 1954? manuscript "The Dawn of Private Forestry in America, Recollections of a Forester Covering the Years 1895 to 1914".]
Image Caption: A primeval stand of longleaf pine near Jasper, Alabama, showing the old-fashioned method of "boxing" to yield turpentine and resin. The "box" is a receptacle skillfully hacked into the base of the tree beneath the white "face" from which drops of resin trickle down.
[Carl Alwin Schenck (1868-1955) and the students he taught at the Biltmore Forest School took several trips to observe forest management and logging operations in other regions of the United States. This particular trip to observe naval stores industry activities in Walker County, Alabama, was taken in 1898 at the behest of Gifford Pinchot, chief of the Division of Forestry.]
[The Schenck manuscript from which this image is drawn is from the collections of the Forest History Society in Durham, North Carolina. Schenck (1868-1955) was the founder of the Biltmore Forest School on George Vanderbilt's estate in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1898. A revised edition of the Schenck manuscript was published in 1955 by the American Forest History Foundation at the Minnesota Historical Society under the title "The Biltmore Story: Recollections of the Beginning of Forestry in the United States". The 1955 book was reprinted in 1974 by the Forest History Society under the title "The Birth of Forestry in America: Biltmore Forest School, 1898-1913" and in 1998 by the Forest History Society in cooperation with the Cradle of Forestry in America Interpretive Association and the U.S. Forest Service History Program under the title "Cradle of Forestry in America: The Biltmore Forest School, 1898-1913".]
Image Date: [1898]
Photographer: [unknown]
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.
