Image ID: Yale26_A
Digital Image Size (in pixels): 300
x 263 pixels
Image Scan Resolution: 75 dpi
Original Image Size: 4" x 4 8/16" B/W print
Image Title: [Large stump in forest with much smaller trees.]
Image Caption: [What appears to be a clipboard and a small, square leather bag rest atop a large tree stump in an unidentified location. The paraphernalia is similar to that carried by foresters who took measurements while doing field work in forests in the early twentieth century. The tree stump is quite large compared to the diameter of the standing trees in this forest.]
[Image from the Theodore S. Woolsey, Jr., Auxiliary Photograph Collection held by the Forest History Society Archives in Durham, North Carolina. Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, Jr., (1879-1933) was a 1903 graduate of the Yale Forestry School. In 1900 he began working summers for the U.S. Forest Service while an undergraduate student at Yale University. He worked full-time with the agency from 1903 to 1915, when he left the Forest Service to serve as a major in the U.S. Army's 10th Engineers in France during World War I. As a staff officer Woolsey was responsible for purchasing timber tracts from which the engineers produced lumber to meet the needs of the American Expeditionary Force. After the war he began a career as a consulting forester, settling down to live with his wife and children in his home state of Connecticut. Woolsey devoted many years to studying forestry movements in France, Corsica, Germany, Algeria, Tunisia, and India. He was the author of several forestry texts and numerous journal articles, was actively involved in local and national forestry and conservation organizations, and at various times throughout his career was an infrequent lecturer at Yale's forestry school. The images in the Woolsey Collection presumably document forestry activities observed, directed, researched, or undertaken by Woolsey during the first or second decade of the twentieth century.]
Image Date: [no date]
Photographer: [Woolsey, Theodore S., Jr.]
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.
