Gathering crude turpentine in the great pine forests of the South, North Carolina.
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
89 x 178 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.20
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting gathering crude turpentine in the great pine forests of the South, North Carolina. In the foreground a woman if stripping a pine tree and a man is loading a barrel onto a cart. Two more people are busy in the background. 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: (17) 5658 - In the great pine forests of the South. Copyright 1908 by Underwood & Underwood. In the left hand 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, N.J., Westwood, N.J Verso: no markings ; long text describing the turpentine process.
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