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Photos - Zora Neale Hurston, the WPA in Florida, and the Cross City Turpentine Camps

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Hauling rosin
 
Pulling turpentine
 
Scraped pines for turpentine
 
Scraping a tree to make turpentine
 
                 
 
Turpentine still
 
Weighing rosin
 
Coopers hard at work at their shop
 
Turpentine storage tanks at still
 
                 
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Chipping a tree to make turpentine
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Gambling for Camel cigarettes on payday

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Scribing a turpentine pine
 
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Still for making turpentine from tree resin
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Turpentine industry workers
 
Turpentine industry workers
 
Dip testing the gum before removal from the truck
 
                 
 
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