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Charcoal Burners in their Camp

Karl Bodmer
1809-1893

Charcoal Burners in their Camp

ca. 1875
7 3/8 x 9 3/4 inches
Albumen print.

Gift of Karen B. Cohen.

2022.275
Notes
In a camp with crude log furniture, two laborers pause in their work. They are probably charcoal burners, men who came to Fontainebleau each spring to tend the charcoal-producing kilns using freshly logged wood. Because the fires required constant monitoring, the workers constructed modest huts in the forest and left only when the job was done.
Provenance
Karen B. Cohen.
Century
Department