Description
Photograph of a sixty gallon kettle used by Conrad Will to make salt on the Big Muddy River. It was transported from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, around 1815. Posing with the kettle is Will's grandson, Edward Worthen.
Source
The photograph appears on page 482 of A History of Southern Illinois: A Narrative Account of its Historical Progress, its People, and its Principal Interests, by George Washington Smith, 1912.