Dipping tar into a barrel

Dipping tar into a barrel

Fayetteville (N.C.)
Men -- North Carolina

A young black man stands in front of a wooden trough holding a pole attached to a pail. He is lowering the pole into a dug out hole. A wooden barrel is in front of the trough. Caption reads: "Dipping tar out of the earth reservoir into which it flows from the kiln."

Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940

Image from opposite page 293 of Highways and Byways of the South by Clifton Johnson, 1905

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