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Robert M. Borg Photographic Collection of Wildlife in Massachusetts State Forests

• HF-ID: HFP-073
• Category: Visual Materials
• Creator:
  • Borg, Robert M.

• Date: 1935-1944
• Location: Massachusetts
• Media: Photographs and negatives
• Contents:
  • Black and white photos and negatives. Printout of R.M. Borg's obituary, photocopies of Department of Conservation reports.
  
  
  • Beartown State Forest
  • 74 black and white photos (3 3/8” x 4 5/8” and 2 5/8” x 4 ½”) with corresponding photo forms: B001, B002, B003, B004, B005, B006, B007, B008, B009, B010, B011, B012, B013, B014, B015, B016, B017, B018, B019, B020, B021, B022, B023, B024, B025, B026, B027, B028, B029, B030, B031, B032, B033, B034, B035 (2 copies), B036, B037, B038, B039, B040, B041, B042 (2 copies), B043 (2 copies), B044, B045, B046, B047 (2 copies), B048, B049, B050, B051 (2 copies), B052 (2 copies), B053, B054, B055, B056, B057, B058, B059, B060, B061, B062, B063, B064, B065, B066, B067, B068, B069.
  • 2 unidentified black and white photos: 4 5/8” x 6 7/8” and 2 5/8” x 4 ½”.
  • 26 negatives (3.5” x 5”): nB039, nB041, nB042, nB043, nB046, nB047, nB048, nB049, nB051, nB054, nB055, nB056, nB057, nB058, nB059, nB060, nB061, nB062, nB062b (no photo), nB063, nB064, nB065, nB066, nB067, nB068, nB069
  • 9 unidentified negatives (3.5” x 5”), possibly overexposed.
  
  
  • Boxford State Forest
  • 8 black and white photos (3 3/8” x 4 5/8” ) with corresponding photo forms and negatives: BSF003, BSF004, BSF006, BSF007, BSF008, BSF010, BSF011, BSF012.
  
  
  • Brimfield State Forest
  • 11 black and white photos (3 3/8” x 4 5/8”) with 12 corresponding photo forms and 12 negatives: BR001, BR002, BR003, BR004, BR005, BR006 (negative and photo form only), BR007, BR008, BR009, BR010, BR011, BR012.
  
  
  • Mohawk Trail State Forest
  • 10 black and white photos: MT001 2 1/8” x 3 1/8” (2 copies), MT002 2 5/8” x 4 ½” (2 copies), MT003 2 5/8” x 4 ½” (2 copies), MT004 2 5/8” x 3 ¼” (2 copies), MT005 2 5/8” x 4 ½” (2 copies).
  • 4 black and white photos (3 3/8” x 4 5/8”) taken by R.H. Piper, with corresponding photo forms and negatives (3.5”x5”): MT006, MT007, MT008, MT009.
  • 2 black and white photos (3 3/8” x 4 5/8”) with corresponding photo forms and 3 negatives (3.5”x5”): MT010, MT010b (negative only), MT011.
  
  
  • Myles Standish State Forest
  • 24 black and white photos (3 3/8” x 4 5/8” and 2 5/8” x 4 ½”) with corresponding photo forms and 18 negatives (3.5”x5”): MS001, MS002, MS003, MS004, MS005, MS006, MS007, MS008, MS009, MS010, MS011, MS012, MS013, MS014, MS015, MS016, MS017, MS018, MS019, MS020, MS021, MS022, MS023, MS024.
  • 5 black and white photos (2 5/8” x 4 ½”) labeled “Plymouth”, no dates.
  • 6 black and white photos (3” x 5”) with negatives (3.5”x5”). Young men working on barbed wire fencing, no labels or dates. [Negatives found in Townsend folder. Correct location uncertain.]
  • 10 black and white photos (3 3/8” x 4 5/8”) and 12 negatives (3.5” x 5”) [Negatives found in Mohawk Trail folder. Correct location uncertain.]
  
  
  • Otis State Forest
  • 10 black and white photos (3 3/8” x 4 5/8”) with corresponding photo forms and 9 negatives (3.5”x5”): O001, O002, O003, O004, O005, O006, O007, O008 (photo only), O009, O010.
  
  
  • Sandisfield State Forest
  • 9 black and white photos (2 5/8” x 4 1/2”) with corresponding photo forms (no negatives): S001, S002, S003, S004, S005, S006, S007, S008, S009.
  • 19 black and white photos (3 3/8” x 4 5/8”) with corresponding photo forms and 18 negatives: S010, S011, S012, S013, S014, S015, S016, S017, S018, S019, S020, S021, S022, S023, S024 (2 copies), S025, S026, S027.
  • 8 black and white photos ( 3 3/8” x 4 5/8”) and 8 negatives (3.5” x 5”): no labels, no dates.
  • 4 negatives (3.5” x 5”): no labels, no dates.
  
  
  • Savoy State Forest
  • 2 black and white photos (3 3/8” x 4 5/8”) with photo form: SSF01 (2 copies, no negative).
  
  
  • Townsend State Forest
  • 12 black and white photos (3 3/8” x 4 5/8”) with corresponding photo forms and 12 negatives (3.5”x5”): T001, T002, T003, T004, T005, T006, T007, T008, T009, T010, T011, T012.
  
  
  • Wildlife and other photographs
  • 19 black and white photos (3 1/8” x 4 7/8”) b&w photos and 24 negatives (1 ¾” x 2 5/8”).
  • 10 black and white photos (3 5/8” x 5 1/4”) and 14 negatives (3.5”x5”): unknown group of people, unknown location, ca. 1944.

• Keywords: wildlife
• Abstract:
  • Robert M. Borg was the supervisor of Wildlife Management for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the 1930s.
  
  
  • Beartown State Forest photos include winter shelter, nesting cover, deer bed under pine, grouse rearing area, hemlock swamp in need of releasing, highbush cranberry with fruit, grouse nest, wild turkeys, wild black duck’s nest, wild life refuge grid lines, wild woods-cat (wild house cat), turkey nest, pheasant rearing, turkey rearing, pheasant pen.
  
  
  • Boxford State Forest photos include improvement cuttings and apple tree pruning.
  
  
  • Brimfield State Forest photos include the newly established Wildlife Refuge at Brimfield, wildlife refuge gates, clover patches, firebreak, refuge poster, James Larkin and a wild rabbit, Russian mulberry seedling, black walnut seedling, winter cover, apple trees, grid marker.
  
  
  • Mohawk Trail State Forest photos include Bog Pond, restoration of dam, CCC workers with fawn, brush patches (photos by R.H. Piper).
  
  
  • Myles Standish State Forest photos include bull briar, grouse and small game feeding stations, food strips, rearing field and pen (photos by R.H. Piper), quail rearing field, experimental food plant nursery, bittersweet cutting to be planted for food and cover, Kalmia satifolia, wildlife refuge signs, quail rearing field.
  
  
  • Otis State Forest photos include releasing of apple trees, Calamus Brook, improvement cuttings, spring.
  
  
  • Sandisfield State Forest photos include Duck Island, improvement cutting, fire lane, view of wild life area from tower, feeding stations, apple trees with bark eaten by rabbits, Sandy brook below the York Lake dam, woods trails,
  
  
  • Savoy State Forest photos are of an eel captured in a rearing pond below the Tannery Pond.
  
  
  • Townsend State Forest photos include temporary cloth refuge poster, wire fences (R.M. Borg is the subject of one of these photos, photographer unknown), winter cover, woods trail, apple trees, food strips, permanent refuge signs
  
  
  • Wildlife photos include mole runways and traps (Thomas Farm,, Milford, DE in October 1940), pine mouse work (Pratt Orchard, Ellendale, DE in October 1940), gray squirrel nest (taken on Choate Estate, Petersham, November 1940), porcupine damage (taken on Choate Estate, Petersham, November 1940), wildlife mortality on Rt. 122 between Paxton and W. Rutland, November 1940
  
  
  • Bombay Hook Wildlife Refuge (Smyrna, DE, October 1940), Roadside planting photos - Route 16 between Mendon and Hopedale [Massachusetts] (November 1940) and Route 140 near W. Upton [Massachusetts] (October 1940).
  
  
  • Photos of unknown group of people at unknown location, ca. 1944.

• Archives Location: Map Room, stack 11, drawer 2
• Access: Active
• Provenance: Donated by Sally Borg Picard, daughter of R.M. Borg, in 2007. Additional information about the collection provided by Sean Fisher, DCR Archivist, in 2008.
• Administrative Notes:
  • Former HF-ID and title: HF1936-14 Photographs of Wildlife reintroduction in Massachusetts state forests, 1935-36