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Stripping bark from trees

 

Artist's rendition of a nineteenth-century estate somewhere along the Atlantic seaboard. The workers in the painting appear to be harvesting the bark off the birch trees. Strips of birch bark were often used as a veneer for canoes of other hand-crafted items.

About this item


Title:
Stripping bark from trees
Date of Original:
1933-1934
Identifier:
COP_17_0026_00000_016.tif
Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/81984/d3fb4wm70
Type:
Image

Rights:
In copyright
Access:
Public access

Subject--Topic
Trees
Birches
Estates
Plantations
Paintings
Transparencies

Form:
Photographs
Color:
Color
Extent:
2.75 x 2 in.

Collection Information


Collection:
Century of Progress records
Show more details:
Series:
Series 17: Iconographics
Box:
26
Repository:
University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Repository Collection Type:
Manuscript Collections
Repository Location:
Richard J. Daley Library

Acknowledgements


Acknowledgements
Funded by a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant awarded by the Illinois State Library under Jesse White
Secretary of State.


Geographic Information

Near South Side (Chicago, Ill.)