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[Three men in workshop making tobacco pipes] – Historic Reproduction

[Three men in workshop making tobacco pipes], c1908 July 12. — historic photograph
[Three men in workshop making tobacco pipes], c1908 July 12.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Three men in workshop making tobacco pipes] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Three men at work in a pipe-making shop are the focus here, with the carving of pipe bowls as the operation that the record highlights. Underwood & Underwood, a firm that issued large numbers of stereographs for home stereoscope viewers in the early 1900s, produced this view, and its paired images were meant to give a sense of depth when seen through a viewer. By about 1908, briar wood from Mediterranean root burl had become a popular material for smoking pipes in the United States, and workshops like this one shaped rough blocks by hand. The picture offers a useful record of ordinary manufacturing before machines took over much of that work.

Created / publishedc1908 July 12.
Medium1 photographic print : stereograph, unmounted.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.Stereographs 1900-1910.
NotesH113273 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 111998. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
SubjectsTobacco pipe industry--1900-1910. Tobacco pipes--1900-1910. Carving--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,276 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-183674

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