Forest History Society Photograph Collection Images from the Urania Lumber Company Auxiliary Photograph Collection / Urania20th

Image ID:  Urania20
Digital Image Size (in pixels):  300 x 230 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:  [Derrick and wooden building at water's edge.]
Image Caption:  [View of a metal tower or derrick next to a wooden building at the edge of a forest, with an unidentified body of water in the foreground. Between 1925 and 1939 there were 99 producing oil wells drilled on the Henry Hardtner and Urania lands.]

[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.