In the great Pine Forests of the South - gathering crude turpentine - North Carolina
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
89 x 178 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.19
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting the gathering of crude turpentine in a pine forest. Two men are working in the foreground: one stripping the bark at the bottom of a pine tree; the other filling a drum . Behind them a horse driven cart is waiting to be loaded. In the background a third man is also stripping a pine tree. The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: Printed in black in on the right lower margin: In the great Pine Forests of the South - gathering crude Turpentine - North Carolina. Copyright 1907 by Underwood & Underwood. In the left and margin, printed in italic print in black ink: "Underwood and Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto - Canada, Ottawa - Kansas. In the right hand margin: "Works and Studios Arlington, Washington DC. Verso: no markings
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, publisher