Man in tobacco barn
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3 Sun Mar 14 01:40 PM  by Henry N Howell

This is a farmer posing in a tobacco barn filled with green leaves of tobacco hanging from tobacco sticks prior to the beginning of the weekly tobacco curing process. The tobacco leaves have been strung or looped on tobacco sticks with tobacco twine and hung from tier poles in the barn. Tier poles are eight or nine tiers high reaching to the top of the barn. The tobacco barn is divided into four or five rooms about four feet wide holding from four hundred to four hundred fifty sticks of green tobacco. Preparing and filling a tobacco barn with tobacco to be cured was a labor intensive process prior to the sixties. Tobacco barns and scenes similar to the photograph dotted the landscape of Eastern North Carolina for most of the twentieh century when tobacco was the economic lifeblood of the area.
2 Mon Sep 28 02:19 PM  by Entered by Admin

Thanks, description has been updated.
1 Fri Feb 6 06:26 PM  by Beth Winstead

This is inside a tobacco barn where the tobacco was cured.


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Description
A man standing in a tobacco barn, reaching up to touch tobacco leaves hanging from the ceiling. Date from negative sleeve.
Contributor(s)
Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.)
Date
July 03, 1954
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Collection(s)
The Daily Reflector Image Collection
Agriculture

Subject(s)
Tobacco industry--North Carolina--Greenville
Tobacco curing--North Carolina--Greenville
Barns--North Carolina--Greenville

Finding Aid
Daily Reflector Negative Collection

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Location
United States--North Carolina--Pitt County (N.C.)--Greenville (N.C.)
Type
still image
Medium
negatives (photographic)
Physical Description
91mm x 115mm
Call Number
741.4.d.8
Rights
Copyright held by Joyner Library. Permission to reuse this work is granted for all non-commercial purposes.
Persistent URL
http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/420

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