Old photo--inside a blacksmith shop

farmerjohn · Dec 5, 2015

Was doing some remodeling this week for some people and saw this picture hanging in the garage, he let me take a picture of it. I just think it is a neat photo showing the old time life. The shop was in Brush Valley, PA.

LME · Dec 5, 2015

Neat, we have 3 pictures of my family with the oval frames, they are over 100 yrs old. One is my mother when she was a baby, she was born in 1915.

notjustair · Dec 5, 2015

In my family the bubble glass frames were reserved for wedding pictures or funeral pictures. I'm not sure who started it, but there are wayyyyy too many pictures of dead people in caskets. I don't plan on continuing the tradition.

casecollectorsc · Dec 5, 2015

I have one of my Grandfather, first year of college, 1915 also....in an oval frame.

Andy Martin · Dec 5, 2015

Great photo, but why is everything so clean? I bet his wife made him clean it up for the picture.

Billy Shafer · Dec 6, 2015

My grandmother was the same way. Anyone that died. Got a picture on the wall of her sitting room. When I found out they were all dead people. I never went into that room again.

Dick2 · Dec 6, 2015

Cleanest blacksmith shop that I ever saw. Probably took him 2 weeks to get it cleaned up for the pic.

Duane WI · Dec 6, 2015

That looks like a wood floor. How did the place not burn down? If you are working red hot steel on the anvil sparks will be flying. Looking at the forge in the background how do you keep from dropping a hot coal on the floor?

fixerupper · Dec 6, 2015

My great granddad was a blacksmith in Everly Iowa. A year ago while I was walking in the corridor of a local hospital I saw a picture of a blacksmith standing by the anvil holding a hammer. I stopped to look at this picture and I saw a caption saying 'Peter Frydenborg, Everly Iowa'. That was my great granddad! His shop wasn't nearly as neat as the one in your picture though.

Andy Martin · Dec 6, 2015

I don't think wood floors were too uncommon. Especially in ships. You could always dip water out of the slack tub to put out sparks.

Brian G. NY · Dec 6, 2015

(reply to post at 03:36:16 12/06/15)

That is a very, very old teacher's desk in the right side of the picture.

My mom left one to me and the lower part is presently in our historical society in a schoolhouse museum.
The upper part is in my basement.
Seems like a very strange assortment of furniture and stuff for a blacksmith shop.
Interesting and wonderful picture!

Old photo--inside a blacksmith shop

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