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  • Collection: Forestry in Western North Carolina

A typical wood road in the Biltmore Forest.

A group of Biltmore Forest School students inspects an old sawmill located on Lookingglass Creek. This mill was driven using a fluttermill.

Dr. Homer D. House giving a lesson to Biltmore Forest School students at Lookingglass Creek. Dr. House is pictured in the middle wearing a hat. Several of the students are kneeling at the creekside.

A group of Biltmore Forest School students pose for a picture before getting to work. The students are standing except one who is kneeling in the front of the group with a dog.

Three Black camp cooks working for the Vanderbilt family, stand in front of a wooden fence and beside a porch. They accompanied the Vanderbilts on a trip to Pink Beds in Pisgah Forest.

A group of Biltmore Forest School students standing behind a wooden fence in the Pink Beds

View of a forested area in Murphy Branch being logged. A man (possibly a Biltmore Forest School student) in a white shirt is visible to the right of the image. The cable running along the top of the image is part of a log loader.

This photograph of Dr. Carl Alwin Schenck and his first wife, Adele Schenck was taken at the Biltmore Estate in 1908.

Dr. Collier Cobb and an unknown Biltmore Forest School student pose in front of a scenic overlook. Dr. Cobb was a professor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who taught geology at the Biltmore Forest School during the summer…

This image depicts two horses harnessed to a carriage meant to transport passengers. A man is standing by the horses' heads.
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