Tobacco

Wives of tobacco tenants pile the tobacco before the barn preparatory to firing. Granville County, North Carolina

North Carolina farm boy in doorway of tobacco barn. Person County, North Carolina

Tobacco farmer, owner of 100 acres. Person County, North Carolina

Son of sharecropper "worming" tobacco. Wake County, North Carolina

Sharecropper with wife and child in their tobacco field. Note that the tobacco grows up to the front porch. Near Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Wage laborer topping tobacco. Shoofly, North Carolina

Topping tobacco. Shoofly, North Carolina

tenant topping tobacco. Person County, North Carolina

Tobacco sharecropper and his children working on tobacco patch, "topping" and "worming."

Wife of tenant farmer, Mrs. Oakley, works stringing tobacco during the harvest season. Granville County, North Carolina

Tobacco strung on sticks. Granville County, North Carolina

White sharecropper, Mr. Taylor, has just finished priming this field of tobacco. Granville County, North Carolina

Near Douglas, Georgia. Sharecroppers grade the cured leaves on the porches and sort them to go to the tobacco auction

As the auctioneer knocks down the last bid on each basket of tobacco in the warehouse, the price is immediately recorded, and the farmers go to the "money box" to get their money. Douglas, Georgia

Loading cured tobacco for market. Georgia

Life in Clark County, Kentucky in 1916

Life in Clark County, Kentucky in 1916

Life in Clark County, Kentucky in 1916

Getting ready to hang tobacco in Kentucky in 1916

Life in Clark County, Kentucky in 1916

Life in Clark County, Kentucky in 1916

Life in Clark County, Kentucky in 1916

Life in Clark County, Kentucky in 1916

Life in Clark County, Kentucky in 1916