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Urania28th

Image ID:  Urania28
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:  [Forest surveying equipment in forest clearing at night.]
Image Caption:  [An engineer's transit and plane table perched atop tripods in a clearing in front of a couple of tents. This equipment was likely used to conduct a forest survey, as the tents seem to be located in a forest clearing. Probably 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.