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| Biography | Everett Spenser Shipp b. 1877 in Memphis, MO, d. 1944 in Washington DC, buried Rock Creek Cemetery Washington, D.C. Parents: Mr. and Mrs. James A Shipp Mr. Shipp attended photography school in Effingham, Illinois. He began his career in 1901 with the US Forest Service, and worked there for 42 years. During this time, he traveled to all US National Forests seeing many areas that, according to Mr. Shipp, "…no white man had ever seen". Mr. Shipp attained the position of Chief Photographer for the US Forest Service and held this position for 30 years. On May 11, 1917, Mr. Shipp was elected First Vice President of the Federal Photographic Society at their annual meeting in the New Ebbit Hotel in Washington, D.C. His photographs have appeared throughout the world in magazines and exhibitions and are archived at UNC Asheville and at the US Forest Service headquarters in Arizona. [Biographical information from Mike Donahue, grandson of E.S. Shipp.] |
| Subject Keyword | Everett Spenser Shipp ; United States Forest Service ; North Carolina ; Arizona ; Forestry Schools ; United States Department of the Interior ; |
| Subject LCSH | Shipp,
Everett Spenser United States Forest Service Forests and Forestry --- United States Forestry and Community Forestry Extension North Carolina Forestry Extension Southern States Forestry Industry Forestry Innovations Forestry Schools and Education Forestry Schools and Education --- North Carolina United States. Department of the Interior |
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Bibliography |
Image Database - Rocky Mountain Research Station. Photographer: E.
S. Shipp. Collection Call num.: 193734. File name: fv000116.jpg.
Media: 6 in. x 8in. black and white print. Native Num:. Related Web page:
... www.rmrs.nau.edu/imagedb/ |
| Citation | Everett Spenser Shipp in the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
| Processed by | Special Collections staff, HW 2008 |