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Making soap for home consumption. Airy boughs, or Mucall trees, serve to make a fire under the big out-of-door pot in Newfoundland [Page 32 of Wells and Pots album]
Making soap for home consumption. Airy boughs, or Mucall trees, serve to make a fire under the big out-of-door pot in Newfoundland [Page 32 of Wells and Pots album]

Making soap for home consumption. Airy boughs, or Mucall trees, serve to make a fire under the big out-of-door pot in Newfoundland [Page 32 of Wells and Pots album]

Creator Edith Sara Watson (American, 1861 - 1943)
Date1890s-1930s
Mediumalbum page with gelatin silver print
Dimensions35.5 x 30 cm
Credit LineFrances Rooney Collection. Purchase with funds generously donated by Martha LA McCain, 2018
Object number2018/3595.32
LocationNot currently on display

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In Newfoundland the hoop holds the bucket out and keeps the water from spilling. Here in Burgeo the "public well" serves the whole community, no water is drawn on Sunday's! [Page 6 of Wells and Pots album]
In Newfoundland the hoop holds the bucket out and keeps the water from spilling. Here in Burgeo the "public well" serves the whole community, no water is drawn on Sunday's! [Page 6 of Wells and Pots album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
Stoking the out-of-door oven with wheat straw from the straw pile for making pies in Tauks second to none [Page 46 of Wells and Pots album]
Stoking the out-of-door oven with wheat straw from the straw pile for making pies in Tauks second to none [Page 46 of Wells and Pots album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
The "public well" in Burgeo, Nfld. has to serve the whole community! [Page 11 of Wells and Pots album]
The "public well" in Burgeo, Nfld. has to serve the whole community! [Page 11 of Wells and Pots album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
The out of door oven in which is baked the great loaves of French bread. In St. Francis du Lac, Que. [Page 44 of Wells and Pots album]
The out of door oven in which is baked the great loaves of French bread. In St. Francis du Lac, Que. [Page 44 of Wells and Pots album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
The custom of carrying pail of water on hoops, obtained in the out-ports of Newfoundland. In Hermitage. [Page 12 of Wells and Pots album]
The custom of carrying pail of water on hoops, obtained in the out-ports of Newfoundland. In Hermitage. [Page 12 of Wells and Pots album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
[Woman cooking over big pot outdoors] [Page 27 of Wells and Pots album]
[Woman cooking over big pot outdoors] [Page 27 of Wells and Pots album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
Habitant family has its big oven pot, in Que. [Page 33 of Wells and Pots album]
Habitant family has its big oven pot, in Que. [Page 33 of Wells and Pots album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
Nothing like the old iron pots. In boiling out seal oil in a Magdalen Island sea port. In Havre Aubert. [Illeg.] 20. [Page 39 of Wells and Pots album]
Nothing like the old iron pots. In boiling out seal oil in a Magdalen Island sea port. In Havre Aubert. [Illeg.] 20. [Page 39 of Wells and Pots album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
When an old pot and a tea kettle join forces over a fire they send on a challenge to appetite [Page 35 of Wells and Pots album]
When an old pot and a tea kettle join forces over a fire they send on a challenge to appetite [Page 35 of Wells and Pots album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
The big wheel on a Galician farm in Gonor, Man. [Page 18 of Wells and Pots album]
The big wheel on a Galician farm in Gonor, Man. [Page 18 of Wells and Pots album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
Not cheeses, hot giant loaves of brown bread, baked in a big Community oven in Brilliant, B.C [Page 43 of Wells and Pots album]
Not cheeses, hot giant loaves of brown bread, baked in a big Community oven in Brilliant, B.C [Page 43 of Wells and Pots album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
Cooking potatoes for the family pig at Haute Lamique, Shippegan Is. N.S. by aid of the big pan [Page 26 of Wells and Pots album]
Cooking potatoes for the family pig at Haute Lamique, Shippegan Is. N.S. by aid of the big pan [Page 26 of Wells and Pots album]
Edith Sara Watson
1890s-1930s
Page
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