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Making salt, at Saltville, Virginia
[graphic] /
Cullen.
[Hartford:
s.n.,
1875]
1 print:
engraving;
image 8x 10 cm. (3.25 x 4 in)
Illustration in Edward King's The Great South (Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1875), p. 571.
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)
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Salt industry and trade
Virginia
Saltville.
African American salt workers.
84569
Engravings
1870-1880.
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Book illustrations
1870-1880.
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African American History
Champney, James Wells,
1843-1903
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King, Edward, 1848-1896.
The great South.
Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1875.
Imprint
CONN. Hartford.
1875.
Library Company of Philadelphia
Rare
Am 1875 King 3379.Q p 571
Digital image
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