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The Last Barrel |
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For
an article titled “The End of an Era, Georgia Turpentine Industry Fades
into History” (Georgia Forestry Magazine Spring 2003: 4-7) staff
photographer Bill Godfrey took this series of photos on the last barrels
of domestic turpentine being dipped by Major Phillips, an employee of
Jim Gillis of Soperton Naval Stores, in August, 2001. This was the last
commercial turpentine dipped not only in Georgia, but in the entire U.S.
Used with permission
http://www.gfc.state.ga.us/Publications/Educational/Magazines/Spring2003.pdf |
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Major
Phillips gathering scrape from a catface, Soperton Naval Stores, August,
2001. Photo by Bill Godfrey courtesy Georgia Forestry Commission
Magazine. |
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Close-up of gathering scrape. Soperton Naval
Stores. August, 2001. Photo by Bill Godfrey courtesy Georgia Forestry
Commission Magazine.
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Major Phillips with dip bucket, August,
2001. Photo by Bill Godfrey courtesy Georgia Forestry Commission
Magazine. |
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Major
Phillips empties raw gum into a barrel to take to the still for
processing, August, 2001. Photo by Bill Godfrey courtesy Georgia
Forestry Commission Magazine. |
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Major Phillips loads barrels of raw gum
to take to the still for processing, August, 2001. Photo by Bill
Godfrey courtesy Georgia Forestry Commission Magazine.
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The last commercial still in the U.S.
was operated by the Netherlands-based Akzo Nobel Company in Baxley,
Georgia. Here, the last barrels of domestic turpentine in the U.S.,
from Soperton Naval Stores, are unloaded, August 2001. Photo by Bill
Godfrey courtesy Georgia Forestry Commission Magazine.
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Weighing
the last barrels of domestic turpentine in the U.S., from Soperton Naval
Stores, Akzo Nobel still, Baxley, August, 2001. Photo by Bill Godfrey
courtesy Georgia Forestry Commission Magazine. |
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Processing
the last barrels, using the modern steam distillation techniques, Akzo
Nobel still, Baxley, August, 2001. This is the end of an era. Photo by
Bill Godfrey courtesy Georgia Forestry Commission Magazine. |
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