A village oven in Les Hopitaux, France, where all the baking of the community is done. The oven is a structure made out of stone and bricks with a large opening in the front. A large wooden structure, perhaps a house, has been built over the oven. Piles of sticks are visible on both sides of the dirt road leading up to the oven. A woman is standing in the middle foreground, at what appears to be a well. Many villages in France made use of communal ovens to bake all of the community’s bread, (1906).

Identifier
NYSA_A3045-78_A5092

Date Original
1906

Language
English

Source
New York State Archives. New York (State). Education Dept. Division of Visual Instruction. Instructional lantern slides, ca. 1856-1939. A3045-78, A5092.

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