Sorting and hanging tobacco

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2	Thu Nov 5 08:17 PM by Mike Perry Here they are NOT sorting tobacco--instead, they are tieing the harvested leaves onto sticks. These sticks of tobacco will then be hung in the barn for a full week of curing by heat. This process was simply called "putting in" tobacco, and all tobacco farmers did this one day a week throughout the summer.
1	Fri Feb 6 04:51 PM by Beth Winstead Tobacco is "graded" and "racked"

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Description
Women and children sorting and hanging tobacco for curing. Dates from negative sleeve.

Contributor(s)
Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.)

Date
June 20, 1963 - June 21, 1963

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Collection(s)
The Daily Reflector Image Collection
Agriculture

Subject(s)
Tobacco--Harvesting--North Carolina--Greenville
Children--North Carolina--Greenville
Women--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
741.30.a.35

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/6189

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