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Tom Swamp and Harvard Pond Miscellaneous Photographs

• HF-ID: HFP-040
• Category: Visual Materials
• Creator: Gast, P.R., Zimmermann, M.H., Gould, E.M., Jr., Silvester, J., Raup, H.M.
• Date: 1928-1987
• Location: Tom Swamp Tract (Harvard Forest)
• Media: Mixed media
• Contents:
  • photographs and negatives.

• Keywords: management
• Abstract:
  • A collections of photographs and negatives of the Tom Swamp tract, including Harvard Pond
  • Tom Swamp I, Historical Photographs (8"x10" b&w photos)
  • - #2922, 60-year 'old field' pine before thinning of 1908-09
  • - #2923, 60-year 'old field' pine after thinning of 1908-09
  • - #2965, One-year white ash and white pine on cuttings of 1914-1915
  • - #2966, General view of reproduction, mainly ash, oak, chestnut, paper birch and cherry and 1-year pine seedlings one growing season after logging
  • - #2967, Young growth needing weeding on cut area of 1914-1915
  • - #2968, White ash seedling sprouts, 6 years old, on cutting area of 1914-1915 (HF Bulletin 1, Group II, figure 5)
  • - #2970, General view of reproduction, mainly ash, oak, chestnut, paper birch and cherry and 1-year pine seedlings one growing season after logging 1914-1915
  • Tom Swamp I, Experimental Thinning, 1969
  • - TS I, before thinning, May 1969 (15) 3.5"x5" color photos with (15 + 1 damaged) negatives
  • - TS I, after cut, June 1969 (7) 3.5"x5" color photos with (8)negatives
  • - TS I Experimental Thinning, May 1969, some with Woods Crew, G. Kenney, Bud Hyde and Buzz Mitchell, (19) 3.5"x5" b&w photos with (20) negatives
  • Tom Swamp II, Historical Photographs
  • - "Even aged 60-year old pine and hardwoods in the area of the 1908-1909 clear cut" 2 unidentified men, May 1908, 7"x9.25", 8"x10" b&w photos (copy of lantern slide).
  • - #1211, Pine along the brook before release in 1925, 7.75"x10" b&w photo
  • - #1212, Pine along the brook after release in 1925, 7.75"x10" b&w photo
  • - #1703, NW part of eastern sample plot after thinning in 1933, 7.75"x10" b&w photo
  • - #1705-1/2, South part of eastern sample plot before thinning in 1933, 7.75"x10" b&w photo
  • - #1706, North part of western sample plot after thinning in 1933, 7.75"x10" b&w photo
  • - #2934, Slash left after removal of logs and limbwood, 6.75"x9" b&w photo
  • - #2936, Just after clear cutting, 7.5"x9.5" and 8"x10" b&w photos
  • - #2937, Just after second weeding, 6.75"x9" b&w photo
  • - #2938, Stand being cut. Students making stem analysis, 6.75"x9", 8"x10" b&w photos
  • Tom Swamp II
  • - TS II western plot, marked trees, (5) 6.75"x9" b&w photos
  • - Area of 1908-1909 harvest cutting, photo by M. Zimmermann, May 1960 (2)8"x10" b&w photos [historical negatives I & II]
  • - marked trees,TS II, March 1960, by M.H. Zimmermann, 8"x10" b&w photo
  • - Dec 1968, TS II, plot B, "same position as Mar. 1960 photo by MHZ w/ash #511 left of center", 8"x10" b&w photograph & (4) negatives
  • - Dec 1968, TS II, plot B, "same position as Mar. 1960 photo by MHZ" (with cap), 8"x10" b&w photograph & 2 negatives
  • - Dec 1968, TS II, plot B, "same position as 1961 photo showing tree #721 right side", 8"x10" b&w photograph
  • - Dec 1968, TS II, plot B, Ernie Gould, 8"x10" b&w photograph
  • - TS II Plot B, Dec. 1968, "view toward instrument shelter" - negative, missing
  • - TS II Plot B, Dec. 1968, "same position s 1941 photo with split rock in lower right corner of photo" (2) negatives
  • - TS II Plot B, Dec. 1968,"same position as 1961 photo showing tree # 721 - right side" (3) negatives
  • - TS II, Oct. 1969, "chipping brush", (8) color photos & negatives
  • Tom Swamp V, Historical Photographs
  • - #2902 Gast's light measurements, Oct. 1923, 5"x7" b&w photo
  • - #2904 Cleared strips of 1918 and 1923m Oct. 1923, 5"x7" b&w photo
  • - #2905 West side, pure pine before thinning, Nov. 1911, 7"x8.5" b&w photo
  • Tom Swamp VI, Historical Photographs
  • - Black birch on stilt roots in E.P. Stephens plot, taken Dec. 1953 by H.M. Raup, 8"x8" b&w photo glued to cardboard
  • Tom Swamp VII, Historical Photographs
  • - #2694 "Improvement cutting in mixed pine and grey birch", Sept. 12, 1914, 5.25"x7" b&w photo
  • Tom Swamp VIII
  • - Aerial photograph of Riceville Reservoir, 1947, 3.75"x6" b&w photo (copy of photo in HFVA-51)
  • Tom Swamp IX, Historical Photographs
  • - #1954 Adams-Fay lot 2-cut shelterwood, Feb 1937, 8"x10" b&w photo
  • - reprint of historical photo 2589 AF-16-2 80' clear cut strip [TS IX, strips]
  • - reprint of historical photo 2592 (AF 19b-1) 140' clear cut strip looking NE from SW corner, Sept 10, 1925 [TS IX, strips]
  • - #2596 140' N.S. Clearcut, Oct 6, 1928, taken by P.R. Gast, 8"x10" b&w photo
  • - #2603 Adams-Fay lot 2-cut shelterwood, Oct 1924, by P.R. Gast, 8"x10" b&w photo.
  • - #2606 Adams-Fay lot 2-cut shelterwood, Sept 1934, by P.R. Gast, 8"x10" b&w photo
  • #2616 Adams-Fay lot 2-cut shelterwood, Oct 1928, by P.R. Gast, 8"x10" b&w photo
  • -reprint of historical photo 2621 Adams-Fay Lot (TS IX), second cut shelterwood
  • - #2622 Adams-Fay 2-cut shelterwood at camera station #12, Sept. 1, 1934, taken by P.R. Gast, 8"x10" b&w photo
  • - #2641 Adams-Fay Hemlock Selection, 1924, 7"x9.25" b&w photo
  • - "TS IX opposite soil pit looking east into 2-cut shelt. intended for use on display board 1962", taken by WFM, May 7, 1962, 3.25"x4" b&w photo and strip of negatives with 4 b&w images
  • Tom Swamp X
  • - Aerial photo by M.H. Zimmermann, August 15, 1974, 8"x10" b&w photo (negatives in HFP-005)
  • Historical photograph of Brook's Pine near Harvard Pond
  • - Photograph mounted on board labeled "Brook's pine, that grows like a chestnut, 1/4 mile east of the South end of Lincoln, White, Books [sic] or Harvard Pond, on path that leads to Ward Hill." 3.75"x4.75" b&w photograph
  • - 2 photocopies of photograph, 1 photocopy of reverse side
  • Harvard Pond Amenity Cutting
  • - Harvard Pond Peninsula Shots Before Clearing, Sept. 1969, (6)3.5"x5" color photos and negatives
  • - Harvard Pond After Amenity Cutting, 1969, (8)3.5"x5" color photos and negatives
  • - Harvard Pond "No Cut + slides", (8)color negatives
  • - "Window Before Cut, Misfits & W. Side Harvard Pond negatives of color prints & slides", 1969, (35) color slides
  • - "Looking E. Harvard Pond Crew Cutting", 1969, (8) color negatives (2 damaged)
  • - "Before Window", 1969, (12) color negatives
  • - "After Window & slides", 1969, (11) color negatives
  • Pictures Used in Window Writings
  • - "Other pictures used in Window Writings", (9) 3.5"x3.5" color photos, (10) 3.5"x5" color photographs
  • Harvard Pond Photographs by Janet Silvester, 1987
  • - (23) 3.5"x5" b&w photos
  • - (23) 4"x6.25" b&w photos (duplicates of above) taped into panoramas
  • - Copies of photo #3, "Brooks Pond (Harvard Pond) on a lazy summer's day in August", cover of 1986-87 Annual Report: 4.5"x8", 9"x8.5", 9"x9.5", 9"x10" and 9.5"x9.5" b&w photos
  • - Copies of photo #2: 9.25"x9.5", 9.5"x9.5" and 9.75"x9.25" b&w photos
  • - (1) 11" x 14" b&w photo [filed in oversized photos box]

• Related Items:
  • Historical photo LS051: Even age trees 1908
  • Historical photo 2603n: Shelterwood in Adams-Fay lot before logging 1924

• Archives Location: Map Room, stack 11, drawer 1
• Access: Active
• Administrative Notes:
  • LS051: olvwork402298
  • 2603n: olvwork407803