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History of Forestry

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/specialcollections/forestry/

Provider: NCSU Libraries

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Appropriate grades
9–12
Subjects
science (biology and life science, environmental science), social studies (North Carolina, United States history)
Provider
NCSU Libraries

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History of Forestry from North Carolina State University Libraries' Special Collections Research Center, the Biltmore Company in Asheville, the Forest History Society in Durham, and the University of North Carolina at Asheville established this web site to provide access to digital collections of original documents, images, and other resources from the first organized forestry school at Biltmore Forest near Asheville, North Carolina to the general public, students and scholars.

In addition to providing historical context to the history of forestry, this website brings together collections of primary source materials that include diaries, correspondence, articles, field notes, photographs, and other materials. This website contains the following collections:

  • The Carl Alwin Schenck Collection, 1865 - 1959
  • The North Carolina Forestry Foundation Sub-Group, 1869-2000 ("The Hofmann Forest Collection")
  • Rare Book: The American Woods, Volumes I-XIV, by Romeyn B. Hough
  • Biltmore Forest School Images, ca. 1890s - ca. 1988
  • Jonathan Keith Esser Collection, 1899 - 1920
  • Early Forestry Education in North Carolina Oral History Interview Collection, 1959
  • Images from "The Dawn of Private Forestry in America, Recollections of a Forester Covering the Years 1895 to 1914," a Manuscript by Carl Alwin Schenck, 1954?
  • Forestry Lectures of Carl Alwin Schenck, 1904 - 1909
  • The Biltmore Forestry Fair Collection, 1908 - 1909
  • Biltmore Forest School Alumni Reunion, 1950
  • The Cornell Forestry School Field Trips Photograph Collection, 1928 - 1934
  • The Alfred Cunningham Papers, 1910, 1931 - 1937, n.d.
  • The Urania Lumber Company Photograph Collection, 1938 - 1939
  • The Development of Forestry in the Southern United States Oral History Interview Collection, 1958 - 1976
  • Theodore S. Woolsey, Jr., Auxiliary Photograph Collection, ca. 1900s-1910s
  • U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station Collection, 1897-1952
  • Biltmore Estate Forest Department Manager's Records, 1895-1909