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Urania48th

Image ID:  Urania48
Digital Image Size (in pixels):  300 x 224 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:  [Urania Lumber Company sawmill.]
Image Caption:  [Exterior view of sawmill presumably owned and operated by the Urania Lumber Company of Louisiana. Logs piled onto flatbed railroad cars are visible in the foreground, and a monorail system used for lumber transport is visible in the far left background.]

[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.