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) / FHS292th

Image ID: FHS292
Digital Image Size (in pixels): 300 x 205 pixels
Image Scan Resolution: 75 dpi
Original Image Size: 3 6/16" x 5" 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: In the center with a slouch hat is Sir Dietrich Brandis (1824-1907), framed by Professors Dr. Hess and Dr. Wimmenauer, on a visit at the Giessen school forests and school forest gardens in 1889, with a group of English students destined for forestry in India.

[In England in the late nineteenth century, forestry school students who were candidates for the Indian Forest Service were required to spend a year with various German forestry supervisors selected by Sir Dietrich Brandis. Upon completion of this apprenticeship, students accompanied Brandis on a tour through the woods of Germany, Switzerland, and France.]

[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: [1889]
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.