Postcards from Montpelier: Deforestation & Reforestation

Postcards from Montpelier: Deforestation & Reforestation

Forests

These postcards depict the deforestation and reforestation of Vermont’s capital, Montpelier. In the early 20th-century a few sparse trees dot the barren hillside above the town. Less than 50 years later, the capitol building, known as the “Golden Dome,” is surrounded by dense forest, and the state can once more be promoted to visitors as the “The Green Mountain State.”

Greetings from the Green Mountains: Koppel Color Cards, Hawthorne, NJ. Color by John B. Hustler.

UVM Special Collections

Bird's Eye View: Buswell's Book Store, Montpelier, VT; Greetings from the Green Mountains: Forward's Color Productions, Inc., Manchester, VT

[1913?] [1966]

postcards, approx. 3x5", scanned 03/19/2014.

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Montpelier, VT; Manchester, VT; Hawthorne, NJ; 1913; 1966