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Healthy young tobacco transplants in the field. Nearly all the field work on tobacco is done by Latino immigrants now.
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Young transpants of tobacco just coming along. Nearly all the field work on tobacco is done by Latino immigrants now.
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In the barn, dislpaying his cash crop for the camera. Barnardsville, North Carolina. (20 miles northeast of Asheville).
Scanned from the Big Ivy Community Club's 1959 scrapbook.
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1959. Burley tobacco staked and drying in the field, preparatory to collection for further drying and curing in the barn. Barnardsville, North Carolina. (20 miles northeast of Asheville). Scanned from the Big Ivy Community Club's 1959 scrapbook.
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Ceremonial tobacco grows (left), along with corn, squash, peppers, and other native plants, in the integrated landscape of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall. U.S. Capitol in the background. I love the juxtaposition of the organic and the formal in this shot, with its suggestion of the long struggle of Native Americans with our government; and, not least, the achievement of securing this spot on the Mall for their museum and cultural center. June 17, 2007.
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