Coopers

Coopers

1875 - 1895

color prints (photographs)

Japan; coopering; barrels; bamboo

Four boys, are shown crafting the braided bamboo hoops which hold barrels together. The boy in the foreground with a hammer is working on a barrel with one completed hoop. Unlike many others in the collection, this photograph seems to have been taken outside. Turner has added the inscription, "Coopers."

Pitts Theology Library

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