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Additional Resources

Primary Sources

  • AT-FA Journal, 1936-1969.
  • Valdosta Daily Times, 1905-1999.
  • Lowndes County News, 1936-1953.
  • Georgia Forestry, Georgia Forestry Commission, 1948-2003.
  • American Turpentine Farmers Association Papers, Georgia Agrirama, State Museum of Agriculture, Tifton, Georgia.
  • Traditions of Turpentine, South Georgia Folklife Collection, Valdsosta State University Archives and Special Collections, Odum Library, Valdosta, Georgia
  • USDA History Collection, Special Collections of the National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland
  • J. Aubrey Smith Collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia.
  • Hugh Peterson, Sr. Papers, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia.
  • Iris F. Blitch Papers, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia.
  • Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia.
  • John Leonard Pilcher Papers, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia.
  • Harley Langdale Papers, The Langdale Company, Valdosta, Georgia.
  • Georgia Forestry Association Papers, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia.
  • Georgia Forestry Commission, record group 64, Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Southern Forest Institute Collection, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia.
  • Naval Stores Collection, MS 2202, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.
  • Turpentine News Clipping File, The Forest History Society, Durham, North Carolina.
  • Oral History Interview Collection, The Forest History Society, Durham, North Carolina.
  • Olustee Experiment Station Files, Georgia Agrirama, State Museum of Agriculture, Tifton, Georgia.
  • Hurston, Zora Neale. "Turpentine Camp-Cross City." Stetson Kennedy Florida Folklife Collection, Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs, Florida Folklife Archive. Online at http://www.floridamemory.com/OnlineClassroom/zora_hurston/documents.cfm

Books, Journals, and Articles

  • Outland, Robert B., III. Tapping the Pines: The Naval Stores Industry in the American South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
  • Lancaster, John E. Judge Harley and his boys: the Langdale story. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2002.
  • Butler, Carroll B. Treasures of the Longleaf Pines: Naval Stores. Shalimar, Fl: Tarkel Publishing, 1998.
  • Coppen, J.J.W. Gum Naval Stores: Turpentine and Rosin from Pine Resin. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1995.
  • Hayes, Martha Green. "General History of the Turpentine Industry." Georgia Agrirama, State Museum of Agriculture, Tifton, Georgia.
  • Langdale, Harley, Jr. "Brief Facts on the Langdale Company." Lowndes County Historical Society, Valdosta, Georgia.
  • Wright, Gay Goodman. "Turpentining: An Ethnohistorical Study of a Southern Industry and Way of Life." Master's thesis, University of Georgia, 1979.
  • Mobley, M.D., and Robert N. Haskins. Forestry in the South. Atlanta: Turner E. Smith, 1956.
  • Pikl, I. James. A History of Georgia Forestry. Athens: Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of Georgia, 1966.
  • Snow, Albert G., Jr. "Research on the Improvement of Turpentine Practices," Economic Botany, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec., 1949): 375-394.
  • Johnson, Ronald N. "Declining Industries and the Persistence of Government Support Programs: The Quiet Decline of Gum Naval Stores Production in the United States," The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 60 (2000): 995-1016.
  • Shearon, Will H., Jr., E.L. Patton, and G.P. Shingler, "Continuous Distillation of Gum Turpentine," Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol. 40, No. 9 (1948): 1695-1702.

Films

  • Suwanee Pine, J. Aubrey Smith Collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia, 30602-1641.
  • From the Living Pine, J. Aubrey Smith Collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia, 30602-1641.
  • 4-H Forestry Camp, J. Aubrey Smith Collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia, 30602-1641.
  • Treasure Land, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia, 30602-1641.
  • More Profit by Gum!, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia, 30602-1641.
  • The Second Payday, Georgia Forestry Commission, Macon, Georgia.
  • Fire Call, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia, 30602-1641.