Making tar.
Title
Making tar .
Creator
Matlack, Claude Carson, 1878-1944 (collector)
Description
Jacob "Jake " West holds a young child . Joseph Hignite stands beside Jake and a tar kiln sits over an unlit fire pit nearby . Behind them, Polly West sits on the porch of the Wests ' cabin and an unidentified man sits in the shade near the picket fence on the left . The cabin was in the "Flat Woods " at the head of the Long Branch of Bullskin Creek . Handwritten on bottom border : 478 . Handwriting on verso is partially obscured by scrapbook paper that has adhered to the print , but appears to say : "___ ____ making tar for medicine __ axle greese [sic] made from pine roots. " Title supplied by cataloger .
Subject
Men Children Log cabins Porches Country life
People Pictured
Hignite, Joseph B., 1854-1919 West, Jacob West, Polly
Location Depicted
Clay County (Ky.)
Date Original
1903? - 1913?
Object Type
Photographic prints
Source
3 x 5.5 in. b&w photographic print. Item no. 1982.01.478.p in the Claude C. Matlack Collection, University of Louisville Photographic Archives.
Citation Information
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Appears In Publications
Thomas, Samuel W., ed. Dawn comes to the mountains. Louisville, Ky.: George Rogers Clark Press, 1981, p. 90; Richardson, Darrell C. Mountain rising: The story of James Anderson Burns and Oneida Institute. Oneida, Ky.: Oneida Mountaineer Press, 1986.
Collection
Claude C. Matlack Collection
Collection Website
http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/matlack/
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Photographic Archives
Format
image/jpeg
Ordering Information
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Image Number
ULPA 1982.01.478
Language
eng
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