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Cutting Burley tobacco and putting it on sticks to wilt before taking it into the curing and drying barn on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky.

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Cutting Burley tobacco and putting it on sticks to wilt before taking it into the curing and drying barn on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky.

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01/01/1939

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Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer

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Lexington (Ky.), 37.98861, -84.47778

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