Inventory of the ‘Forest Practices Throughout the United States’ Photograph Album, circa 1938
Descriptive Summary
Abstract: The collection includes one photograph album entitled "Forest Practices Throughout the United States," which consists of 14 pages with 11 black-and-white photographs. This album contains a series of Forest Service photographs showing "good" versus "bad" examples of forest practices such as logging and lumbering. The album also includes a copy of a letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the House of Representatives on March 14, 1938 regarding the problem of diminishing forest resources in the United States, as well as a memo from W. W. Bergoffen detailing the cost of preparing the album. The album was probably prepared for the use of congressional committee members to supplement President Roosevelt's message to congress and proposed legislation.
Title: "Forest Practices Throughout the United States" Photograph Album, circa 1938
Creator: United States. Forest Service
Repository: Forest History Society Library and Archives
Call Number: 2874
Language of Material: Material in English
Extent: 0.25 linear feet (1 photograph album)
Collection Overview
The collection includes one photograph album entitled "Forest Practices Throughout the United States," which consists of 14 pages with 11 black-and-white photographs. This album contains a series of Forest Service photographs showing "good" versus "bad" examples of forest practices such as logging and lumbering. The album also includes a copy of a letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the House of Representatives on March 14, 1938 regarding the problem of diminishing forest resources in the United States, as well as a memo from W. W. Bergoffen detailing the cost of preparing the album. The album was probably prepared for the use of congressional committee members to supplement President Roosevelt's message to congress and proposed legislation.
Collection Arrangement
- Photograph Album, circa 1938
Subject Headings
- Forest conservation -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Forestry law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Logging -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Logging -- United States -- Photographs
- Lumber and lumbering -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Lumber and lumbering -- United States -- Photographs
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- United States. Congress -- Archives
- United States. Congress. House -- History -- Sources
- United States. Forest Service
- Bergoffen, William W.
Detailed Description of the Collection
1. Photograph Album, circa 1938.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], 'Forest Practices Throughout the United States' Photograph Album, Library and Archives, Forest History Society, Durham, NC, USA.
Processing Information
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Encoded by Amanda Ross, May 2009
Funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission supported the encoding of this finding aid. Support for digitization and outreach provided by the Alvin J. Huss Endowment.
