Forest History Society Photograph Collection Images from the Urania Lumber Company Auxiliary Photograph Collection / Urania2th

Image ID:  Urania2
Digital Image Size (in pixels):  300 x 231 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 target rod surveying tool.]
Image Caption:  [An unidentified man stands with a target rod surveying tool on a railroad tie. Pine trees line the railroad track, which stretches into the background behind the man. 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 their training including studying how to design the layout of logging railroads.]

[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.