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Mss Eur F252/5
- Record Id:
- 040-002291221
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002291215
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001001.0x0000a2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F252/5
- Title:
- USA Field Journal, 1914-15
- Scope & Content:
-
Diary includes the following:
- Folio 10 verso: photograph of ‘Head of Cable Skidway showing block with load just delivered at the R.R. near Davis W.Va.’
- Folio 11 verso: photograph of ‘Logging at Davis W.Va., skidder with load, Cutover Lands behind’
- Folio 11 verso: photograph of Engine at head of skidway
- Folio 12 verso: photograph of ‘Logging R.R. at Davis W.Va., water tanks and icicles’
- Folio 12 verso: photograph of ‘Logging at R.R. at Davis W.Va. showing cutover lands and foot of snow (self)’
- Folio 13 verso: photograph of ‘Starting out on a sleighing trip to lead-mine from Davis W.Va.’
- Folio 14 verso: photograph of ‘View from RR of previous photos across cañon to main line and old logging line [illeg.] now deserted and ruined hill [illeg.] Davis W.Va.’
- Folio 15 verso: photograph of ‘Waterfall near W.va., viewed from the logging RR – showing little timber which has escaped the lumberman’
- Folio 20 verso: photograph of pine tree ‘pinus pungens at Harpers Ferry Nd.’
- Folio 26 verso: photograph of the ‘results of a fire near Damascus’
- Folio 27 verso: photograph of view of infested pines on ridge above the Tennessee Laurel
- Folio 28 verso: photograph of ‘some of infested trees of last photo pinus pungens and pinus echinata’ (Tennessee Laurel)
- Folio 29 verso: photograph of ‘infected white pine and futch pine, Damascus, Va., Main Mt. in background’
- Folio 30 verso: photograph of ‘Forest guard Sam Mc Fall, Feathercamp Pk.’
- Folio 31 verso: photograph of Fire lookout tower, Whitetop N.F. (with Sam and Harry Champion)
- Folio 32 verso: photograph of Fire lookout, Sam and his cabin
- Folio 33 verso: photograph of ‘Panorama from top of lookout tower, Whitetop, N.F.’
- Folio 36 verso: photograph of White pine plantation at Biltmore N.C.
- Folio 40 verso: photograph of Hardwood Forest, N.C.
- Folio 41 verso: photograph of Looking Glass Mountain
- Folio 45: newspaper cutting on action taken by the Government forestry service to check an attack by tree beetles in the White Top forest of Virginia
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002291215
036-002291216
040-002291221 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F252 : Papers of Sir Harry Champion, Indian Forest Service 1912-40; Professor of Forestry, Oxford 1940-59
Mss Eur F252/1-80 : Diaries
Mss Eur F252/5 : USA Field Journal, 1914-15 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002291215[0001]/036-002291216[0005]/040-002291221
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F252
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 volume and 20 photographs
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1915
- End Date:
- 1915
- Date Range:
- Jan-Mar 1915
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- 46 folios
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)