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) / FHS296th
Image ID: FHS296
Digital Image Size (in pixels): 300 x 204 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: The virgin forests on Big Creek in Pisgah Forest had been unmolested by ground fires and by the axe until the huge tulip tree here seen on the ground was felled in 1893. Some 500 tulip trees of similar size were at hand in the cove, while the majority of the stand was composed of chestnuts, oaks, basswoods, black gums, birches, sourwoods, etc.
[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: [1893]
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.
