Forest History Society Photograph Collection Images from the Theodore S. Woolsey, Jr., Auxiliary Photograph Collection / Yale14_Ath

Image ID:  Yale14_A
Digital Image Size (in pixels):  300 x 236 pixels
Image Scan Resolution:  75 dpi
Original Image Size:  4" x 5" B/W print
Image Title:  [Loading bark peelings onto a railroad car.]
Image Caption:  [Two horses have pulled a sled loaded with bark peelings up next to a railroad train car loaded with additional peelings. The men posing in the picture are apparently in the process of loading the car with the peelings. Slash is visible on the hillside in the background, as are flat piles of logs in either side of the train car. The end of the train car has "P.R.R.", "52591", and Wt. 24700" printed on it; it is apparently a car run by the Pennsylvania Railroad.]

[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:  [ca. 1900s]
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.