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Making salt, at Saltville, Virginia [graphic] / Cullen.
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Contributor
Champney, James Wells, 1843-1903
Title
Making salt, at Saltville, Virginia [graphic] / Cullen.
Publisher
[Hartford: s.n]
Publisher
CONN. Hartford. 1875
Date
[1875]
Physical Description
1 print: engraving; image 8x 10 cm. (3.25 x 4 in)
Description
Illustration included in Chapter LXIII, "Among the Mountains -- From Bristol to Lynchburg." It shows two black men working in the salt works in Saltsville, Virginia. In the accompaying text, King wrote the following of the two subjects: "The stout negroes working over the boiling salt were both delighted and amazed when their pictures appeared in the artist's [James Wells Champney's] sketch-book; they had never seen 'no such writin' befo'.'" (p. 571)
Is part of
King, Edward, 1848-1896. The great South. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1875.
Notes
Illustration in Edward King's The Great South (Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1875), p. 571.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Subject
Salt industry and trade -- Virginia -- Saltville.
African American salt workers.
Genre
Engravings -- 1870-1880.
Book illustrations -- 1870-1880.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1875 King 3379.Q p 571
Accession number
3379.Q
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