Wood Working—Coopering: barrel-making machinery engravings page – Historic Print
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Wood Working—Coopering: barrel-making machinery engravings page comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Wood Working—Coopering: barrel-making machinery engravings page
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Coopering, the craft of making barrels and casks from staves and hoops, is the subject of this engraved page, which lays out the machinery used in the trade. Engravings like this one were common in nineteenth-century technical books and encyclopedias, where illustrators drew each tool and device in fine line so that a reader could follow how it worked. Barrels were essential on the farm, holding grain, cider, salted meat, and water, so the cooper's shop was a useful neighbor to rural life. The page is worth studying for its level of detail, which shows the shaping, bending, and hooping steps as a sequence of machines.
| Original scan | 3,981 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 8e04646u Page from The Growth of |
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