Yellow Poplar
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Item information
- Title:
- Yellow Poplar
- Description:
- This is a photograph of some men cutting down a yellow poplar tree. A giant poplar Liriodendron locally known as yellow poplar Big Creek Valley of Pisgah Forest in the moment of its death, sawyers at work to cut it down. Height of the tree about 125 feet. Liriodendron Tilia americana [american basswood] Castanea dentata [american chestnut] Oxydendrum arboreum [sourwood tree] Fraxinus americana [white ash] Betula lenta [sweet birch] [german] Pisgah National Forest, Asheville, North Carolina"
- Topics:
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Forestry
- Subjects:
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Forests and forestry -- North Carolina
Poplar
- Original Format:
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Kallitype
- Extent:
- 9 x 6 3/4
- Item identifier:
- schenck-poplar_nd_img1_1
- Created Date:
- circa
- Names:
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Biltmore Estate (Asheville, N.C.)
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- Location:
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Pisgah National Forest (N.C.)
Asheville (N.C.)
- Digital Project:
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Manuscript Collections
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- Carl Alwin Schenck Papers, 1865 - 1959 (MC00035) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Note field:
- Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
- Rights:
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