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Imperial Tobacco Company Factory Employees

25 June, 2010 (05:55) | East Carolina Manuscript Collection, negatives (photographic), newspapers | By: Martha Elmore

Source: Daily Reflector Negative Collection #741.11.a.7 Staff Person:  Martha Elmore Description:  In this August 1956 image taken for the Greenville, N.C., Daily Reflector newspaper,  African American women are sorting tobacco at the Imperial Tobacco Company factory.  Many other images related to tobacco production from the field, to the barns, to the warehouse, and finally to the [...]