Vintage 1946 USDA Poster “What We Get From Trees” M-5293 Forest Service 1st Ed For Sale

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Vintage 1946 USDA Poster “What We Get From Trees” M-5293 Forest Service 1st Ed:
$189.05

1946 USDA Forest Service What We Get From Trees Poster Chart M-5293 Vintage

The document number M-5293 and 28 x 40 inch dimensions are confirmed in government catalog records , and the 1946 GPO printing mark dates this edition precisely.

Multiple editions of this chart were issued (1946, 1957, 1963),

“What We Get From Trees” is a large-format educational diagram published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office in 1946.

Document number M-5293.

Unfolded dimensions 28 x 40 inches.

The chart maps the full range of products derived from trees in a branching diagram format, organized from tree components — Foliage, Bark, Sap, Roots, Stumps, Gums, and Resins — out to end products including Cordwood, Poles and Piles, Logs, Lumber, Veneer, Chemical Products, Cellulose, Fiber Products, Paper, Pulp and Paper Products, Wall Boards, and a wide range of manufactured goods.

Color illustrations depict a gum tapper, cordwood handlers, a lineman climbing a utility pole, a log roller, and a nighttime stump scene.

The right side of the chart expands into detailed sub-columns listing hundreds of specific manufactured items.

A text block titled “To Keep the Trees Growing” appears in the lower left.

The USDA Forest Service shield is printed in the upper left corner.

Era

1946

Publisher

U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest

Service

U.S. Government Printing Office

Document Number

M-5293

Dimensions Unfolded

28 x 40 inches

Condition

Heavy fold lines throughout, consistent with decades of storage folded.

Fiber separation at the fold intersections is visible on both sides; there are small tears at two fold-center points where the paper has split under repeated folding stress.

General toning and light spotting on verso consistent with age.

Handle with care.

This is being sold as is and as photographed.

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