Forest History Society Photograph Collection Images from the Urania Lumber Company Auxiliary Photograph Collection / Urania1th

Image ID:  Urania1
Digital Image Size (in pixels):  300 x 227 pixels
Image Scan Resolution:  75 dpi
Original Image Size:  3 2/16" x 4 2/16" B/W print; 3 2/16" x 4 2/16" negative
Image Title:  [Man with forest surveying equipment next to car.]
Image Caption:  [An unidentified man poses with forest surveying equipment -- including several levels, a target rod, and two axes -- next to a vehicle sporting what appears to be a Connecticut license plate in a pine forest. A railroad track is visible in the background. 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 field training included survey work to study the layout of logging railroads, to measure timber growth, to construct topographic maps, and to cruise timber.]

[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.