| Turpentine worker tapping trees, 1937 |
| Old Turpentine Stills of Louisiana & Mississippi |
| Horses and wagon, hauling turpentine out of the woods, 1938 |
| Turpentine still, 1938, near Covington, Louisiana |
| Above and below, resin being processed into distilled turpentine, 1938, near Covington, LA. |
| Moving day for a turpentine worker and his family, 1936 |
| Left, close-up of a "hack" that was used in chipping for turpentine; right, trees being tapped, 1940. |
| Gathering the crude turpentine resin, 1903 |
| Distilling turpentine from crude resin, 1903 |
| A cooperage set up in turpentine orchard to make barrels |
| Abandoned still in depleted turpentine orchard, 1941 |
| Above & below, abandoned cabins in turpentine workers camp, 1941, Mississippi |
| There was a time when lumber was booming and turpentine was flowing in the great pine forests of the southern states, and both were big business, a substantial part of the local economy. Turpentine stills (and one-room houses for workers' families) were constructed and the trees in the turpentine orchard were tapped and drained until the forest was all but depleted. Then, the sites would be abandoned and managers, workers and families would move to the next forest and begin again. In areas where waterways were available, floating stills were often used. Above & below, two floating turpentine stills, about 1920; top, in southeast Louisiana, near Lacombe; below, in southwest Mississippi. |
| Tapping the trees, 1934, Mississippi |
| Turpentine still, Pearl River County, MS |
