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) / FHS360thEAD
Image ID: FHS360
Digital Image Size (in pixels): 300 x 204 pixels
Image Scan Resolution: 75 dpi
Original Image Size: 3 7/16" x 5 1/16" 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: Here, the portable sawmill is seen from within. The man standing at the left is lumber inspector Eaton. There happens to be no log on the sawmill carriage so that a silvery pin--which actually is the circular saw of the sawmill--appears in front of the two boys in the rear of the picture. At the extreme right on a swinging arm, there is the trimmer saw by which the boards are cut to proper lengths as they drop from the sawmill carriage. The "setter" standing on the carriage is about to move its "knees" to the left and to shoot his carriage toward the log deck in the rear. [The Forest Department of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, used portable sawmills to cut lumber in the forests on the estate prior to sending them to the lumber yard in Pisgah Forest Station.]
[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: [1902]
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.
