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Harvard Forest Models - Historical Dioramas

• HF-ID: HFH-0001
• Category: Visual Materials
• Creator: Harvard Film Service
• Date: 1936
• Location: Harvard Forest
• Media: Photographs
• Contents:
  • 12 black and white photos: 2274 (2 copies) 2.5x4.5; 2275 (2 copies) 3.5x5; 2276 (3 copies) 3x4.5; 2278 (3 copies) 3.5x5; 2280 (2 copies) 3x5.

• Keywords: agriculture, dioramas, lumbering
• Abstract:
  • Photographs of the Harvard Forest models taken by Harvard Film Service, 1936.
  • 2274. Primeval forest.
  • 2275. Pioneering settler - initiation of clearing.
  • 2276. Height of agricultural era - extensive clearing.
  • 2277. Land abandonment - pioneer forest vegetation (missing).
  • 2278. Mature 'old field' white pine - lumbering boom.
  • 2279. Young mixed hardwood coppice - recent pine cutting (missing).
  • 2280. Mixed hardwood stand - large saplings - better spp.

• Archives Location: Historical Photographs Box 1, Harvard Forest Models
• Access: Active
• Administrative Notes:
  • Original HF-ID: 2274p/2275p/2276p/2278p/2280p
  • 2025-10-30: Photos 2277 and 2279 are missing.