American Sharecroppers

Harvesting Tobacco

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Harvesting Tobacco

This picture, taken in September 1940, is of two men harvesting burley tobacco. They are cutting it so they can put it on sticks to wilt before they take it into the curing and drying barn. During the 1940's, tobacco was a cash crop; it required careful and constant attention while harvesting. 

 

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