Picking tobacco
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1 Thu Nov 5 08:14 PM  by Mike Perry

Tobacco is not "picked!" Tobacco plants are primed or cropped--depending upon which county you're from! Here they are priming tobacco to be taken to the tobacco barns for tieing onto sticks and hung in the tobacco barns for curing. Essentially, they're "harvesting" tobacco!


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Description
Two men picking tobacco leaves in a field. Date from negative sleeve.
Contributor(s)
Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.)
Date
June 20, 1960
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Collection(s)
The Daily Reflector Image Collection
Agriculture

Subject(s)
Tobacco--Harvesting--North Carolina--Greenville
Agricultural laborers--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
60mm x 60mm
Call Number
741.24.b.65
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/4806

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