Image ID: Urania18 Digital
Image Size (in pixels): 300
x 235 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 doing forest survey with plane table.] Image Caption: [An unidentified man sights across an engineer's plane table while conducting a survey in a forest. Likely a Yale University forestry school student conducting field training in Urania, Louisiana. For many years the forestry school at Yale held a spring camp for its students on Urania Lumber Company land in Louisiana. Part of the students' field work included studying survey techniques to determine how to lay out logging railroads, to cruise timber, to measure tree growth, and to construct topographic maps.]
[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.
