Jarvis, Elissa Heber Green preparing to weld Blacksmith Heber Green preparing to demonstrate an electric welding machine. Dates from negative sleeve. 0741-b29-fa-v29.a.22 5902 -153 19630111 19630112 19630111-19630112 eng still image negatives 6cm x 6cm x 0cm Blacksmiths North Carolina Greenville African American men North Carolina Greenville United States North Carolina Pitt County (N.C.) Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.) contributor Economics Copyright held by Joyner Library. Permission to reuse this work is granted for all non-commercial purposes. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ The Daily Reflector Image Collection reflector Manufacturing and Business mab 0741 Heber Green preparing to weld Blacksmith Heber Green preparing to demonstrate an electric welding machine. Dates from negative sleeve. Blacksmiths--North Carolina--Greenville Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.) 19630111-19630112 StillImage negatives J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University eng 5902 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ African American men--North Carolina--Greenville United States--North Carolina--Pitt County (N.C.)--Greenville (N.C.) Thanks for the comment, the information has been updated. <a href="http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/search.aspx?q=Heber%2bGreen&cf=The%20Daily%20Reflector%20Image%20Collection">These images</a> were used in an article titled "Blacksmith Trade Is Not Yet Extinct" on 1/12/1963. Here are a few interesting excerpts:<br/><br/>Most people probably feel that the blacksmith went out when the age of the automobile came in. "It ain''t necessarily so"...and Herber Green is a man who can prove it.<br/><br/>Green started out in 1927 as an unexperienced horseshoer and since then, more than 35 years of new automobiles and automation have passed. Now Green has his own blacksmith shop on W. Fifth Street and has enough work to keep him busy from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on every working day of the week.<br/><br/>"In the blacksmith''s shop where I worked during the late twenties," he said, "there was in use at that time, an anvil, hammers, tongs, sledges, benches and vices, hand drills, punches, backsaws, a forge with bellows operated by turning a hand crank, and a horner or cone mandrel used for truing rings. Today I have many of these implements in my shop, but most of them have been modernized. I have a forge with electric bellows, electric drills instead of hand drills, electric welding machines, ban saws, drill presses, oxyacetylene torches and other improved or entirely new equipment." That photo is not of a man cutting a stick. It is a man placing an arc welding rod into the rod holder (note the attached welder cable). He is a welder about to arc weld, also known as "stick" welding. local, filename 5902.0001 34646000 image/tiff 6.0 PRONOM PUID: fmt/10 little endian uncompressed MD5 eeab916396c79a252867c11945445964 ecu:digital_collections 4106 4216 Grayscale BlackIsZero 60 mm 60 mm 20090115 Digital Collections Epson Perfection V750 PRO Silverfast Ai v6.4.4r7 object plane in. 1845 1 1845 1 16 integer 1 internal