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) / FHS305th

Image ID: FHS305
Digital Image Size (in pixels): 237 x 300 pixels
Image Scan Resolution: 75 dpi
Original Image Size: 3 1/2" x 12/16" B/W print; 1 6/16" x 1 8/16" negative
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 McGiffert log loader in action near New Bern, North Carolina. The logging machine is here shown with its running wheels raised and standing on its stilts. Through the tunnel thus formed within the machine, empty railroad cars are drawn by a cable and placed in such a position that they may be loaded from the raised arm of the machine with the logs pulled by it toward the track of the railroad. With the wheels on the rail, the McGiffert acts as a locomotive.

[Carl Alwin Schenck (1868-1955), chief forester on George Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, studied logging operations such as this around the state to develop ideas for managing the estate's forests.]

[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: 5/10/1911
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.