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Title Chair caning demostration [demonstration] and class
Title Note Demonstration misspelled on file card as "demostration"
Date August 1976
Description Image of a group of people watching a chair caning demonstration in the Humpback Rocks Visitor Center and Mountain Farm area near milepost 5.8, near 1B of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Supplies for chair caning came be seen on the ground surrounding the group. There appears to be a number of chairs in the process of being caned. Chair caning is a method of weaving chair seats. Image taken from the National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway Headquarters. Photographed by Robert G. Bruce in August of 1976.
Location Location Name: Humpback Rocks Visitor Center and Mountain Farm
Parkway Milepost: 5.8
Latitude: 37.970833
Longitude: -78.898333
Creator Individual Robert G. Bruce
Tags Arts and crafts
Humpback Rocks (Va.)
Nelson County (Va.)
People
Photographs
Tourism
Credit Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway