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Whip saw
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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Detail of a painting showing men using a two-person saw, or whip saw. The painting was first published in the National Park Service publication New Discoveries at Jamestown: Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America, showing men working in the timber industry. The original caption reads, “Timbering — one of the first English industries in the New World.”
