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Blacksmith heating metal

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Creator
Emily Jack
Date created
October 27, 2007
Location
Fort Dobbs, North Carolina
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This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use

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Photograph of two blacksmiths standing at a fire. One leans on the bellows and one heats iron rods in the coals.

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Two blacksmiths stand before a forge at an eighteenth-century living history event at Fort Dobbs, North Carolina. The man on the left rests his arms on the lever of a large bellows. The blacksmith on the right heats iron rods in the fire to make them soft and pliable.