Exhibition 2024

These photographs depict the work of the Forestry Service between the 1940s–1980s.
View706,052 manuscript pages, 13,403 photographs and 267 hours of audio are available here
More informationThese photographs depict the work of the Forestry Service between the 1940s–1980s.
View300 discs from the NFC’s acetate audio collection were recently added to the Audio Collection. These recordings of folk tradition, oral narrative and song were made between the period 1940–1948.
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