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Timbering

About this painting

Painting by Sidney E. King, published in New Discoveries at Jamestown: Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America, by John L. Cotter and J. Paul Hudson. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of the Interior, 1957.

Date created
1957
Location
Virginia
License
This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
Source
Original image housed by Project Gutenberg eBooks

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Black and white image of painting showing men engaged in lumber work.

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This painting was first published in the National Park Service publication New Discoveries at Jamestown: Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America. The painting, which shows men working in the timber industry, is an artist’s interpretation of life in colonial Jamestown. The original caption reads, “Timbering — one of the first English industries in the New World.”