Getting Ready to Make Charcoal, Halifax, Massachusetts

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Traditional wood pile used to make charcoal. It took weeks of burning slowly to turn the wood pile into charcoal. A tent can be seen where the man attending the fire slept. Someone had to be there 24 hours a day.

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Charcoal Pit

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Black-and-white photographs

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25 cm. x 22 cm..

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Holmes Public Library (Halifax) Halifax Historical Society & Museum's Inaugural Collection

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“Getting Ready to Make Charcoal, Halifax, Massachusetts,” SAILS Digital History Collections, accessed May 24, 2013, http://sailsinc.omeka.net/items/show/1457.

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Getting Ready to Make Charcoal, Halifax, Massachusetts

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