Mail Pouch Home
by Jurgen Lorenzen
Title
Mail Pouch Home
Artist
Jurgen Lorenzen
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
A ragged white horse grazing in a field along Route 60 calls one of the few remaining Mail Pouch barns its home in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
With the advent of the auto, Midland Trail / U.S. Route 60 became America's first coast-to-coast highway - stretching from Virginia Beach to the Pacific Ocean at Los Angeles. U.S. Route 60 is the Main Street of America's small towns, including Rainelle, Rupert, Lewisburg, and White Sulphur Springs in Greenbrier County.
A Mail Pouch Tobacco barn, or simply Mail Pouch barn, is a barn with one or more sides painted with a barn advertisement for the West Virginia Mail Pouch chewing tobacco company. The program ran from 1891 to 1992, and at its height in the early 1960s, about 20,000 Mail Pouch barns were spread across 22 states.
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Comments (57)
Joseph Schofield
These are getting harder and harder to find Jurgen. Excellent find and capture! L/F
Rachel Morrison
Beautiful bw farm shot! Congratulations on 1st Place in the Black and White Photography Expo Farm contest!
Guy Shultz
Jurgen, congratulations on your first place win in the FAA Black and White Photography Expo for Farm contest! The ragged white horse really makes the shot!
Jurgen Lorenzen
I am delighted that "Mail Pouch Home" won first place in the #FineArtAmerica contest #BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY EXPO FOR JULY FARM. Many thanks to contest administrator #Michael Ciskowski, and to everyone who voted for my image. Congratulations to the other winners!
Sarah Irland
Congratulations, Jurgen, on your 1st Place Win in the Black and White July Farm Contest for this wonderful photograph! L/F
Frank Barnitz
wonderful rural scene. use to live back East and came across many barns advertising this tabacco, especially in West Virginia.
Sharon McConnell
A beautiful rural scene, Jurgen. The combination of the barn and white horse is just great!
Ben Prepelka
What a great find! These old MP barns are disappearing, so it's nice to see this one still in pretty good shape. Fav
Jurgen Lorenzen replied:
Thank you, Ben! They used to be plentiful in West Virginia but you do not see too many these days.
Larry Kniskern
Congratulations, Jurgen – your farm animal scene has been featured by the Go Take a Hike Photography Group! Feel free to add it to the 2021 Featured Images thread in the group discussion board for archive.
Harriet Feagin Photography
I think I have seen this barn but we could not get a clear view. This looks like a winter shot. That colt is perfectly in place. Looks good in BW
Allan Van Gasbeck
Congratulations! Your outstanding artwork has been chosen as a FEATURE in the “The Gray Scale Outdoors” group on Fine Art America — You are invited to post your featured image to the featured image discussion thread as a permanent place to continue to get exposure even after the image is no longer on the Home Page.
Kathi Isserman
CONGRATULATIONS your STUNNING image has been FEATURED on the HOME PAGE of Mid-Atlantic States of the USA. Please add this to the discussion 2021 “FEATURED IMAGE ARCHIVE THREAD.” L Thank you for participating in the group.
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