Close up of Newton Hylton's left hand holding an axe handle. Hylton uses the axe to peel a narrow strip of bark from a tree. Palmer's title for this small series of photos is: "Newton Hylton gets black cherry bark for medicine for...
Close up of Newton Hylton's left hand guiding an axe as it peels bark from a tree. Palmer's title for this small series of photos is: "Newton Hylton gets black cherry bark for medicine for colds."
Close up of Newton Hylton's left arm as he peels a piece of bark from a tree. Palmer's title for this small series of phots is: "Newton Hylton gets black cherry bark for medicine for colds."
Close up photo of Newton Hylton's hands on an axe handle as he peels a small piece of bark from a tree. Palmer's title for this small series is: "Newton Hylton gets black cherry bark for medicine for colds."
Newton Hylton uses an axe to skin the bark off of a tree in the woods. Palmer's title for this small series of photos is: "Newton Hylton gets black cherry bark for medicine for colds."
Newton Hylton bends over a felled tree on the ground with an axe in his hands. Hylton uses the axe to remove bark from the tree trunk. Part of a larger series of photos on handmade wood shakes.
A man wearing a beekeeper's hat and gloves removes a section of bark from a tree trunk with an axe to access the honeycomb in the hollow center of the tree. Part of a series of photos of a bee hunting trip attributed to Ted Dehart.
The basket is hand-made and is chestnut brown in color. The basket is woven out of broad sections of bark. Its handle is a solid piece of bark. The basket is woven in a melon shape and is in very good condition.
With the expansion of the garden, the college built a cabin to hold gardening tools. Trees, about 60 of them, from the college forest were cut by the natural resources crew, stripped of bark by the landscaping crew. The carpentry crew built the...
Mr. Hatcher spent time writing sayings and stories about local history and folk lore on the walls of his hotel. The Hatcher Hotel was located on Main St. in Pikeville, KY.
Newton Hylton stands next to a tree, holding an axe in his right hand and an iron wedge in his left hand. The wedge is placed against the tree. Pieces of bark have been stripped from tree trunk. Part of a larger series of photos on handmade wood...
Newton Hylton swings a wooden mallet at an iron wedge placed in a cut in a tree trunk. Bark has been removed from the trunk. A crosscut saw lays on the ground to the left of the tree. Part of a larger series of photos on handmade wood shakes.
Close up photo of an iron wedge embedded in the side of a tree trunk. Bark has been removed from the trunk. Part of a larger series of photos on handmade wood shakes with Newton Hylton.