Jarvis, Elissa Cured tobacco Women sorting and rolling tobacco leaves after curing. Dates from negative sleeve. 0741-b37-fa-v37.a.81 8398 -186 19650820 19650823 19650820-19650823 eng still image negatives 2.4cm x 3.6cm Tobacco North Carolina Greenville United States North Carolina Pitt County (N.C.) Greenville (N.C.) Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.) contributor Economics Copyright held by Joyner Library. Permission to reuse this work is granted for all non-commercial purposes. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ The Daily Reflector Image Collection reflector Agriculture agriculture Tobacco tobacco 0741 Cured tobacco Women sorting and rolling tobacco leaves after curing. Dates from negative sleeve. Tobacco--North Carolina--Greenville Daily Reflector (Greenville, N.C.) 19650820-19650823 StillImage negatives J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University eng 8398 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/ United States--North Carolina--Pitt County (N.C.)--Greenville (N.C.) These ladies are tying dried tobacco leaves into bundles.  The tobacco has been cured, taken off the sticks, "graded" and placed in piles on the bench.  It is sorted by color and texture;the stems are then  pressed together to about 2 1/2",at the top.  Next, a soft, pliable leaf is folded to a width of about two inches and wound around the head.  This will keep the bundle from falling apart.  After two or three rounds are made, the remainder of the leaf is tucked into the center of the bundle.  The bundle is placed in a pile near the chair; later it will be "stuck up" on smooth grading sticks, like the one in the background.  It will be "pressed" and placed in an holding area. When the entire barn of tobacco has been tied into bundles,it will be taken to the tobacco auction. Tying tobacco local, filename 8398.0001 42929660 image/tiff 6.0 PRONOM PUID: fmt/10 little endian uncompressed MD5 0b01a2125b05072dfcb7fc40fbe3f6a8 ecu:digital_collections 3882 5526 Grayscale BlackIsZero 24 mm 36 mm 20090326 Digital Collections Epson Perfection V750 PRO Silverfast Ai v6.4.4r7 object plane in. 4000 1 4000 1 16 integer 1 internal