The boy's little boiling down place

The boy's little boiling down place

Plainfield (Mass.)
Cookery (Maple sugar and syrup)
Boys -- Massachusetts -- Plainfield
Winter

A boy sitting on a sled tending the fire under a cast iron kettle as the sap is boiled down to make maple syrup. Nearby, on the right, is a sap carrying bucket with an axe leaning up against it. A second large fire and kettle is in the middleground. To the far left is a carrying bucket with the carrying yoke leaning against it. Sap buckets are scattered around the trees with some leaning on trees in the background.

Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940

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From the Clifton Johnson Collection

Photographs

CJ2379a

Photograph

5 x 7