University of North Carolina at Asheville
D.H. Ramsey Library
Special Collections/University Archives
Everett Spenser Shipp
(1877-1944)

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

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/viewrec.shtml?id=12547&colid=fv - 18k
 
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