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Urania14th

Image ID:  Urania14
Digital Image Size (in pixels):  300 x 228 pixels
Image Scan Resolution:  75 dpi
Original Image Size:  3 2/16" x 4 2/16" negative; 3 2/16" x 4 2/16" B/W print
Image Title:  [Man with log loader and train car loaded with logs.]
Image Caption:  [Partial side view of log loader emitting black smoke from its stack. A railroad car bed stacked with logs perches immediately in front of it on railroad tracks. A man stands in the right foreground at the end of the loaded train car, and pine trees are visible in the distance. Likely a Urania Lumber Company operation in the state of Louisiana.]

[This image is from the Urania Lumber Company Collection, consisting of 66 black-and-white photographs and negatives, 1938-1939, of the Urania Lumber Company at Urania, Louisiana, the Southern Experiment Station at Urania, and the visit of the Yale School of Forestry to Urania. Images include scenes of the Yale students and of the facilities at Urania. Urania Lumber Company, in its cooperative research program with the Southern Experiment Station and the Forestry School, was a pioneer in the study of reforestation.]

Image Date:  [1938?]
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.