Tobacco sorting
- Title
- Tobacco sorting
- Description
- African-American person sorting through leaves of tobacco. Dates from negative sleeve.
- Date
- 1950-1959
- Original Format
- negatives
- Extent
- 12cm x 10cm
- Local Identifier
- 0741-b20-fb-v20.b.9
- Contributor(s)
- Subject(s)
- Tobacco workers--North Carolina--Greenville
- African American women--North Carolina--Greenville
- Tobacco--North Carolina--Greenville
- Spatial
- Location of Original
- East Carolina Manuscript Collection
- Rights
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- is part of
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Sleeve 9, Folder b, Box 20
- Found in theme/project
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Agriculture
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African American History and Culture
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Daily Reflector Images
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Tobacco
- Location of Original
- Daily Reflector Negative Collection from the East Carolina Manuscript Collection
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The cured tobacco was divided into different piles on the "grading bench" based on the color of the cured leaves. There was a section for the pretty or "bright" leaves, the trashy or "brown" leaves and the green leaves that had not cured quite enough. Of course, the bright leaves brought the most money for the farmer when the tobacco was sold. The different stacks were tied into round "bundles" and placed on a grading stick in the packhouse before it was removed from the grading stick and packed into round piles and taken to market.