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1938 Hurricane - Hurricane slides

• HF-ID: HFP-098
• Category: Visual Materials
• Date: 1938-1990(?)
• Location: Athol MA, Petersham MA, Slab City Tract (Harvard Forest), Tom Swamp Tract (Harvard Forest)
• Media: 35mm slide
• Contents:
  • 28.

• Keywords: hurricane damage
• Abstract:
  • Black & White Slides:
  • 2293. Compartment VII. Severe damage to Sd-Hd (softwood & hardwood) from the 1938 Hurricane. R. Lutz viewing the damage.
  
  
  • 2052. Compartment VI. Northeastern Timber Salvage Administration (N.E.T.S.A.) receiving point. Logs salvaged after 1938 hurricane. Load of logs from Tom Swamp VII delivered by William Butler's crew from Wrentham, MA.
  
  
  • - SC III & IV, looking east from state highway. Extreme fire Danger sign [HFP-087]
  • - 2407 - SC III & IV, old field white pine blown down
  • - Petersham town center cleanup, men loading logs into truck with crane [HFP-087]
  • - Petersham view from common
  • - Petersham town center damage
  • - ??-12 Harvard Pond
  • - house and blown-down tree
  • - fireplace and hurricane damaged trees
  • - Hames' Studio photograph of house and damaged trees
  • - salvaged logs
  • -blown-down tree, shattered stump
  • - Logs on pond
  • - Washed out bridge
  • - Washed out bridge, road
  • - Damage to Starrett Mill, Athol
  • - “Woodcutters camp after hurricane”
  • - Roadside hurricane damage
  • - Logs piled up
  • - “Barre Road” and unidentified man
  • - Salvaged logs
  • - House & outbuildings with fallen trees in foreground
  
  
  • Color Slides:
  • - B4 damaged trees
  • - B7 damaged trees
  • - B30 pond
  • - B34 logs on shore of pond
  • - B35 logs on shore of pond

• Related Items:
  • Historical photo 2052n: Work Crew with Hurricane Salvage Logs 1939
  • Historical photo 2293n: Tom Swamp VII Hurricane Damage 1938
  • Historical photo 2407 (LS030): Old Field Pine Blown Down in 1938 Hurricane

• Archives Location: Middle Room, stack 33, drawer 2, 1938 Hurricane file
• Access: Active
• Administrative Notes:
  • 2052n: olvwork410628.
  • 2293n: olvwork407799.
  • 2407: olvwork402518 (LS030).