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The Forest History
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About the Forest History Society Photo Collection
The Forest History Society maintains a rich collection of well over 25,000 photos, slides, negatives, plates, and films documenting the history of human interaction with the forest environment. Indexed by subject, the main collection covers a wide array of topics while focusing on the history of forests, the forest products industry, and lumbering and sawmilling practices.
The sets of our historic photos found on Flickr represent just a tiny portion of our growing digital photo collection. An ongoing digitization effort has produced a searchable FHS Image Database, as well as numerous online subject galleries for browsing. We are excited to use Flickr to provide an introduction to our valuable historic photograph holdings.
What is the Forest History Society?
The Forest History Society (FHS), located in Durham, North Carolina, is a nonprofit educational institution that links the past to the future by identifying, collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating information on the history of interactions between people, forests, and their related resources — timber, water, soil, forage, fish and wildlife, recreation, and scenic or spiritual values.
In addition to the FHS Photo Collection, the Alvin J. Huss Archives also houses a wide array of primary source materials, including such items as: letters, scrapbooks, diaries, newsclippings, reports, pamphlets, memoranda, financial records, and audio-visual materials recorded in a variety of formats. Most materials date from the twentieth century. Descriptive “finding aids,” summarizing the contents of collections, are searchable in the archives, and a growing number of them are accessible in electronic format through our web site.
For more information please view a guided video tour of the facilities, programs, and collections of the Forest History Society hosted by Larry Tombaugh, a longtime member and past Chairman of the Board.
Additional Links
Forest History Society Homepage
Peeling Back the Bark, the Forest History Society’s award-winning blog
The Forest History Society’s YouTube Channel
Forest History Society on Facebook
Forest History Society on Twitter
Contacts (6)
Groups (17)
- NC State Fair 883 photos, 92 members
- Vintage Advertising 92,930 photos, 6,514 members
- Zooty the Newt's: PSA Characters 206 photos, 39 members
- Are We There Yet? Families on vacation: 1945-1970s 1,016 photos, 208 members
- Funny Photos From the Archives 71 photos, 38 members
- Everything Indiana 10,072 photos, 331 members
- Skiing History 52 photos, 4 members
- chestnuts 648 photos, 278 members
- Just Trees 12,397 photos, 923 members
- California National Forests 2,661 photos, 235 members
- U.S. National Forests 11,784 photos, 895 members
- Old Photographs 81,766 photos, 3,352 members
- Historic and Old Photos 66,876 photos, 3,205 members
- Gifford Pinchot National Forest 685 photos, 93 members
- Forestry 710 photos, 98 members
- fire lookout towers and guard stations 1,764 photos, 256 members
- ArchivesOnFlickr 7,875 photos, 275 members
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- Name:
- Forest History Society
- Joined:
- June 2009