Tobacco market opens


Title
Tobacco market opens
Description
Auctioneer Jack Revels (center, pointing) starts tobacco sales on the Eastern Tobacco Market this morning in Greenville. First prices on the leaf sale ranged from $1.21-1.66 per pound on the first few rows.
Date
August 05, 1987
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0741-b45-ff
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Location of Original
East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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Jackie Haddock Nov 12 2012

The man pictured to the immediate right of the auctioneer is Frank Dail a tobacco farmer from Ballards Crossroads near Greenville,N.C.

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