Worldly Folk Questioning Chimney Sweeps Master
Worldly Folk Questioning Chimney Sweeps Master Before of Christ Church, Philadelphia. Watercolor by John Lewis Krimmel, 1811-13. Young boys were small enough to crawl into chimneys to remove flammable creosote build-up. Masters often recruited apprentices from alms houses, who were then indentured to him for seven years. It was an hard and unhealthy job, and done by many African-Americans in the 19th century
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13125313
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45374845
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2224px x 3000px
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Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
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Courtesy Everett Collection
