Harvard Forest Historical Photographs donated by Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
- HF-ID: HFP-125
- Category: Visual Materials
- Creator:
- United States Forest Service
- Associated Person:
- Date: 1925
- Media: Photographs
- Contents:
- 6.25” x 8” photographs mounted on 10” x 12” boards. 11.
- Abstract:
- This is a set of eleven photographic prints, mounted on boards with typewritten labels, which were donated to the Harvard Forest by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation in 2019. Donation letter is included with collection.
- Many of the photographs are reprints of photographs taken by the United States Forest Service in 1925, and also found in HFP-006 “Historical Photographs, 1925, from the United States Forest Service”.
- “Two cut shelterwood system, Harvard Forest. The first thinning, to obtain advance reproduction”
- Reprint of S-4584-C; “Even-aged stand of white pine after the first operation of a shelterwood cutting, Harvard Forest. May 12, 1925”.
- “Selection cutting, Harvard Forest. Pine taken out, hemlock left.”
- Reprint of S-4585-C, “Selection cutting as applied to a spruce forest, Tom Swamp. May 11, 1925”
- “Clear cutting [label damage] Harvard Forest. The object is to obtain natural reproduction from stand left, after which this also will be cut.”
- Reprint of S-4590-C; “Clear cutting in strips in white pine and hemlock, Harvard Forest. May 12, 1925”
- "Old growth pine, Harvard Forest, Petersham"
- “Virgin Pine and Hemlock at Harvard Forest”
- Reprint of S-4563-C; “Barre Woods (Slab City), Virgin Hemlock and White Pine on Harvard Forest, R.T. Fisher and his dog Johnny, May 13, 1925”
- “Red pine plantation, Harvard Forest, 9 years old”
- Reprint of S-4545-C; “Red pine planted in abandoned farm land in spring of 1915. R.T. Fisher and his dog, Johnny.”
- “The old pine on Swift River, Harvard Forest, 300 years old, 125 ft. tall, 40 DBH”
- Reprint of S-4567-C, “Slab City X, White pine beside the Swift River, May 13, 1925; see also S-4567-C, "250 yr old tree beside the Swift R.” By G. H. Collingwood (in Historical Photographs, box 1, White Pine)
- “Lumber cut from trees on Harvard Forest”
- Reprint of S-4568-C; “Lumber sawed from log grown on the Harvard Forest. May 13, 1925”
- “On Swift River, Harvard Forest, Petersham”
- “First cutting, two cut shelterwood system, Harvard Forest. Note advance pine reproduction”
- Reprint of S-4581-C, White pine reproduction following a partial opening in the stand
- “Second growth pine, Harvard Forest, Petersham”
- Related Items:
- Archives Location: Map Room
- Access: Active
- Provenance: donated by Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, April 2019
- Administrative Notes:
- S-4563-C: olvwork410622.
- S-4567-C: olvwork410623.