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Rivercliff Cottage in Biltmore as viewed from across a river. Dr. Carl Schenck lived here during the Spring of 1895 with his mother.

View of two houses belonging to George Vanderbilt in Victoria. One of them was let to Kuser.

Another splash dam being constructed on the North Fork of Big Creek with the aid of Forestry apprentices.

The log deck of a portable sawmill in Pisgah Forest: Head Ranger Cyrus T. Rankin stands by some red oak logs too big for the circular saw in the sawmill unless they are quartered with dynamite before they are rolled onto the sawmill-carriage.

Some students of the Biltmore Forest School are inspecting and piling lumber cut at a portable sawmill before it is sent to the lumber yard at Pisgah Forest Station.

A narrow gauge railroad on Pisgah Forest, its wooden rail top-tripped with hickory, is used for conveying logs singly down-hill grade to the portable sawmill. The empty car is brought back by a steer.

View of the mountain ranges that surround the Pink Beds.

A forest scene with possibly Mrs Carl Schenck.

A view of a handmade, wooden pounding mill.

Dr. Carl Schenck (right) and Reuben B. Robertson, manager of the Champion Fibre Company, (left) stand in front of a tree planted to honor the Biltmore Forest School's relocation to Sunburst, NC in 1910. A man learning between them is working on…