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Zora Neale Hurston, the WPA in Florida and the Cross City Turpentine Camps
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Title : Cuts made for turpentine
Series : Print collections.
Image Number : PR12611
Date : 193-.
Original : 1 photonegative : b&w ; 3 x 5 in.
Notes : The roughest bark at the base of the tree is smoothed with a broadax. An incision is made with the broadax with the maul. Into this incision a strip of crimped galvanized iron or aluminum (called gutter) is inserted. As the broadax is removed the wood springs back and grips the gutter tightly.Hacks and broadax are by the toolbox. The maul is at the right.
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