Heading: (Tennessee - Barrel Manufacturing)
Author:
Title: Original albumen photograph of the Whitehouse Barrel Co. in Nashville, Tennessee
Place Published: Nashville, TN
Publisher:
Date Published: c.1890
Description:

15.5x20 cm (6x7¾"), on original mount with later ink caption on the back.

View of the small barrel factory at 464 Chestnut Street in Nashville, Tennessee, John Henry Whitehouse, president, W.S. Page the manager. There is a large horse-drawn cart loaded with barrels in front of the factory, also a small carriage, and several men. Three of the men are white, four apparently African American - one of the African Americans is in a barrel, possibly placed there in an attempt at humor or at least a demonstration of subservience. Another African American stands behind him, and the other two are at the reins of the horse-drawn conveyances. The Whitehouse Barrel Co. did much of the flour milling cooperage in the Nashville flour milling center of Tennessee.

Minor edge wear to the mount; image wish come fading; very good.