Framed Illustration of “Snakewood”
date: label: Date made
content: 1928
name: label: photographer
content: Mitchells Geography
label: frame maker
content: Bucher, William F.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This “snakewood” illustration is one of forty-nine framed black and white prints bequeathed to the Smithsonian by William F. Bucher of Washington, D.C. Bucher, a cabinetmaker, framed each photograph in wood of the same species as the tree depicted in the print. The photos were displayed in a special exhibition, <I>Our Trees and their Woods</I> at the United States National Museum in 1931.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This illustration features an image of a man riding a horse. Both are encircled by a snake, and the snake’s tail is wrapped around a tree. The illustration is of unknown origin, but is meant to represent snakewood. The frame is made of snakewood on white pine, with a back bead of ebony and glass bead of satin wood.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: frames
label: Subject
content: Trees
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Agriculture and Natural Resources
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content: Photography
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: William F. Bucher
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.115767.12
label: catalog number
content: AG*114767.12
label: accession number
content: 115767
label: maker number
content: 12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: illustration & frame
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (frame material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 11 in x 1 in; 22.86 cm x 27.94 cm x 2.54 cm