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A black and white photo of a man laying on a pile of bags. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A black and white photo of a man laying on a pile of bags. Great Depre...

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Zollie Lyons repairing the tobacco sleds at beginning of the harvest season. Wake County, North Carolina

Zollie Lyons repairing the tobacco sleds at beginning of the harvest s...

Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Negro sharecropper tobacco farm. The path between the house and the well is well worn. Person County, North Carolina

Negro sharecropper tobacco farm. The path between the house and the we...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a tractor, farming equipment, agriculture, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A group of men standing around a large sheet of paper. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A group of men standing around a large sheet of paper. Great Depressio...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cotton outside of Lassiter gin in Wendell, Wake County North Carolina. This gin which is operated by Mr. Faison has ginned only two hundred and fifty bales of cotton this whole season and doesn't expect much more. The boll weevil got most of the cotton in that season. Because of the tobacco market holiday, all the picking and ginning of cotton was finished very early this year

Cotton outside of Lassiter gin in Wendell, Wake County North Carolina....

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Traveling photographer making a sale outside warehouse where tobacco auctions are being held. Durham, North Carolina

Traveling photographer making a sale outside warehouse where tobacco a...

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Farmers must often wait overnight or for several days before their tobacco is sold at auction. They sometimes hang around in cafes or pool rooms, sleeping most anywheres. Durham, North Carolina

Farmers must often wait overnight or for several days before their tob...

Public domain photograph of North Carolina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farmers getting their checks in warehouse office after their tobacco has been sold at auction. Durham, North Carolina

Farmers getting their checks in warehouse office after their tobacco h...

Public domain photograph of North Carolina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A group of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FFSA / OWI Negatives

A group of men standing next to each other. Great Depression FFSA / OW...

Public domain photograph of Great Depression, farm, farmer, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hog killing on Milton Puryeur place. He is a Negro owner of five acres of land. Rural Route No. 1, Box 59, Dennison, Halifax County, Virginia. This is six miles south (on Highway No. 501) of South Boston. He used to grow tobacco and cotton but now just a subsistence living. These hogs belong to a neighbor landowner. He burns old shoes and pieces of leather near the heads of the slaughtered hogs while they are hanging, to keep the flies away

Hog killing on Milton Puryeur place. He is a Negro owner of five acres...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Zollie Lyons, Negro sharecropper, home from the field for dinner at noontime, and part of his family. Upchurch, North Carolina. He has thirteen acres of tobacco and a labor force of five

Zollie Lyons, Negro sharecropper, home from the field for dinner at no...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a group of men, possibly related to: Farmers and warehousemen unloading tobacco on sidewalk, before auction sale. The warehouse was too overloaded to permit more tobacco being brought in. Mebane, North Carolina

A black and white photo of a group of men, possibly related to: Farmer...

Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.) Appears to be related to negative LC-USF... More

Old stone wall with tobacco and tobacco barn in bluegrass region near Lexington, Kentucky

Old stone wall with tobacco and tobacco barn in bluegrass region near ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tobacco on Russell Spear's farm near Lexington, Kentucky

Tobacco on Russell Spear's farm near Lexington, Kentucky

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, farmhouse, pasture, farm field, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fertilizing tobacco field. Farm of J.R. Ray. Five miles northeast of Durham, North Carolina on U. S. 15

Fertilizing tobacco field. Farm of J.R. Ray. Five miles northeast of D...

Public domain photograph of North Carolina in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lyman, Polish tobacco farmers near Windsor Locks, Connecticut

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lyman, Polish tobacco farmers near Windsor Locks, ...

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Taking burley tobacco in from the fields after it has been cut to dry and cure in the barn. On Russell Spear's farm near Lexington, Kentucky

Taking burley tobacco in from the fields after it has been cut to dry ...

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Farmer waiting to sell his tobacco at auction in warehouse. Danville, Virginia

Farmer waiting to sell his tobacco at auction in warehouse. Danville, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Weighing in tobacco on scales in warehouse in Danville, Virginia, where many Caswell County farmers sell their tobacco at auction. North Carolina

Weighing in tobacco on scales in warehouse in Danville, Virginia, wher...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Farmer waiting to sell his tobacco at auction in warehouse. Danville, Virginia

Farmer waiting to sell his tobacco at auction in warehouse. Danville, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Auction sale in tobacco warehouse, Danville, Virginia

Auction sale in tobacco warehouse, Danville, Virginia

Public domain photograph of Virginia, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Leaves of tobacco in a field near Warehouse Point, Connecticut

Leaves of tobacco in a field near Warehouse Point, Connecticut

Public domain photograph - historical image of Connecticut, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barn full of tobacco on Russell Spear's farm near Lexington, Kentucky

Barn full of tobacco on Russell Spear's farm near Lexington, Kentucky

Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Tobacco farmer with hoe for "chopping" places where the plants are to be dropped. Near Farrington, Orange County, North Carolina

Tobacco farmer with hoe for "chopping" places where the plants are to ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Mountain homes along creek showing tobacco patch and corn field in Eastern Kentucky

Mountain homes along creek showing tobacco patch and corn field in Eas...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Stacks of wood cut for firing tobacco barns and winter fuel in Caswell County, North Carolina

Stacks of wood cut for firing tobacco barns and winter fuel in Caswell...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Parent Teacher Association of Prospect Hill, Caswell County, serving and selling Brunswick stew dinner in Mebane, North Carolina on opening day of tobacco market to raise money for a new gymnasium for the Prospect Hill consolidated school in Caswell County, North Carolina

Parent Teacher Association of Prospect Hill, Caswell County, serving a...

Public domain photograph of 1930s North Carolina, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a bunch of fish, Kenntucky. Farm Security Administration photograph.

A black and white photo of a bunch of fish, Kenntucky. Farm Security A...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Using a mechanical planter in a tobacco field near Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Using a mechanical planter in a tobacco field near Chapel Hill, North ...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro child working in tobacco field. She walks along dropping the plants into places already "chopped" for them. Near Farrington, Orange County, North Carolina

Negro child working in tobacco field. She walks along dropping the pla...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Parent Teachers Association of Prospect Hill, Caswell County, serving and selling Brunswick stew dinner in Mebane, North Carolina, on opening day of tobacco market to raise money for a new gymnasium for the Prospect Hill consolidated school in Caswell County

Parent Teachers Association of Prospect Hill, Caswell County, serving ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tobacco on Russell Spear's farm near Lexington, Kentucky

Tobacco on Russell Spear's farm near Lexington, Kentucky

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, farmhouse, pasture, farm field, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tobacco auction in warehouse in Danville, Virginia, where many Caswell County farmers sell their tobacco at auction

Tobacco auction in warehouse in Danville, Virginia, where many Caswell...

Public domain photograph of Virginia, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Galilee trip. Nazareth, the Arab Cigarette & Tobacco Co. Ltd. "Tatli-Sert" Cigarette Factory. Group of women separating tobacco leaves for drying

Galilee trip. Nazareth, the Arab Cigarette & Tobacco Co. Ltd. "Tatli-S...

Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946]. Caption continues from catalog: July 9-11, 1940. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

Barranquitas, Puerto Rico. Cultivating tobacco

Barranquitas, Puerto Rico. Cultivating tobacco

Public domain photograph related to Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barranquitas, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Cultivating tobacco on one of the steep hillside farms

Barranquitas, Puerto Rico (vicinity). Cultivating tobacco on one of th...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a quarry, mine, excavation, or mining site, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Barranquitas (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Tobacco country

Barranquitas (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Tobacco country

Public domain photograph related to Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cultivating tobacco in a field near Barranquitas, Puerto Rico

Cultivating tobacco in a field near Barranquitas, Puerto Rico

Public domain photograph related to Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A couple of men that are standing in the dirt. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men that are standing in the dirt. Office of War Informati...

This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More

Cultivating shade tobacco covered by "fields" of cheesecloth to protect it from the sun. Near Hartford, Connecticut

Cultivating shade tobacco covered by "fields" of cheesecloth to protec...

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Tobacco beds. Halifax County, Virginia

Tobacco beds. Halifax County, Virginia

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s Virginia, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barranquitas (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Stringing tobacco in a tobacco barn

Barranquitas (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Stringing tobacco in a tobacco b...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Bringing a load of tobacco to the tobacco barn on a farm. Vicinity of Barranquitas, Puerto Rico

Bringing a load of tobacco to the tobacco barn on a farm. Vicinity of ...

Public domain photograph related to Puerto Rico, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barranquitas (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Stringing tobacco on the farm of a FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower

Barranquitas (vicinity), Puerto Rico. Stringing tobacco on the farm of...

Picryl description: Public domain image of industrial or agricultural worker, 1930s, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Windsor Locks, Connecticut (vicinity). Daughter of Polish farmer helping in the tobacco harvest

Windsor Locks, Connecticut (vicinity). Daughter of Polish farmer helpi...

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Guanica, Puero Rico (vicinity). Tobacco being harvested in a field

Guanica, Puero Rico (vicinity). Tobacco being harvested in a field

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. The greenhouse where roses, tobacco seedlings and tomato seedlings are started

Bridgeton, New Jersey. Seabrook Farm. The greenhouse where roses, toba...

Public domain photograph of New Jersey in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Stevens now living on the 280 acre dairy farm of Harry Linebaugh. They had formerly farmed thirty acres in Kentucky, raising mostly tobacco. Mr. Stevens received farm labor training at Ohio State University

Rio Grande, Gallia County, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Stevens now living o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a couple, husband and wife, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tobacco barns in Windsor, Connecticut

Tobacco barns in Windsor, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Tobacco barns in Windsor, Connecticut

Tobacco barns in Windsor, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Tobacco barns in Suffield, Connecticut

Tobacco barns in Suffield, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Tobacco barns in Windsor, Connecticut

Tobacco barns in Windsor, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Tobacco barns in Windsor, Connecticut

Tobacco barns in Windsor, Connecticut

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Freshly painted (or repainted) Mail Pouch Tobacco sign on a barn in rural Jackson County, West Virginia

Freshly painted (or repainted) Mail Pouch Tobacco sign on a barn in ru...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. In the days of heavy travel on America's two-lane highways, barn advertisements for tobacco products and nearby tourist attractions we... More

Edgewood Farm, Tobacco Barn, West side of State Route 600, .8 mile north of State Route 778, Clover, Halifax County, Virginia

Edgewood Farm, Tobacco Barn, West side of State Route 600, .8 mile nor...

Significance: A typical example of a flue-cure tobacco barn, this building contributes to the significance of Edgewood Farm. Survey number: HABS VA-1290-D

Richmond, Virginia. Castle Thunder. (Cary Street) (Converted tobacco warehouse for political prisoners)

Richmond, Virginia. Castle Thunder. (Cary Street) (Converted tobacco w...

Public domain photograph of building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Housing tobacco in barn of W.L. Fugate. Will go to Schoolsville School but it has not opened on account of repairs. Lewis W. Hine. See 4398-9 and 4400.  Location: Hedges Station, Kentucky.

Housing tobacco in barn of W.L. Fugate. Will go to Schoolsville School...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tobacco District Rehabilitation Project, Danville, Danville, Virginia

Tobacco District Rehabilitation Project, Danville, Danville, Virginia

For other photos of workers' housing, see HABS VA-1036 & HABS VA-1037. This GPO publication is included in the field records: Rehabilitation, Danville 1978: A Strategy for Building Reuse and Neighborhood Conser... More

Tobacco District Rehabilitation Project, Danville, Danville, Virginia

Tobacco District Rehabilitation Project, Danville, Danville, Virginia

For other photos of workers' housing, see HABS VA-1036 & HABS VA-1037. This GPO publication is included in the field records: Rehabilitation, Danville 1978: A Strategy for Building Reuse and Neighborhood Conser... More

Colored sharecropper and his children about to leave home through the pine woods after their morning work at the tobacco farm stringing and putting up tobacco. Shoofly, Granville County, North Carolina

Colored sharecropper and his children about to leave home through the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Colored sharecropper and his children about to leave home through the pine woods after their morning work at the tobacco farm stringing and putting up tobacco. Shoofly, Granville County, North Carolina

Colored sharecropper and his children about to leave home through the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

American Tobacco Company, Durham, Durham County, NC

American Tobacco Company, Durham, Durham County, NC

Significance: The 1890 formation of the American Tobacco Co. led to major changes in tobacco manufacture and trade. Gaining control of the vast majority of American smoking tobacco production, the American Tob... More

American Tobacco Company, Durham, Durham County, NC

American Tobacco Company, Durham, Durham County, NC

Significance: The 1890 formation of the American Tobacco Co. led to major changes in tobacco manufacture and trade. Gaining control of the vast majority of American smoking tobacco production, the American Tob... More

John O. Lay to James Madison, July 2, 1825. Includes account of tobacco sales.

John O. Lay to James Madison, July 2, 1825. Includes account of tobacc...

Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at loc.gov James Madison Papers.

Washington Hotel, Corner Main & Telegraph Streets, Clarksville, Montgomery County, TN

Washington Hotel, Corner Main & Telegraph Streets, Clarksville, Montgo...

Significance: The Washington Hotel is an extensively altered structure dating from the mid-1820s. It has association with Clarksville's mid-19th century prominence as a port on the Cumberland River. The hotel... More

Deep Falls Tobacco Barn, Deep Falls Road, Chaptico, St. Mary's County, MD

Deep Falls Tobacco Barn, Deep Falls Road, Chaptico, St. Mary's County,...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1572 Survey number: HABS MD-1340

Tobacco Barn, Latta, Dillon County, SC

Tobacco Barn, Latta, Dillon County, SC

Survey number: HABS SC-594-A Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction

Tobacco Redrying Plant, Railroad Avenue, Lake City, Florence County, SC

Tobacco Redrying Plant, Railroad Avenue, Lake City, Florence County, S...

Significance: A significant complex of early 20th century brick buildings and structures associated with the production and processing of tobacco in South Carolina. Survey number: HAER SC-12 Building/structur... More

Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. Teacher expects 19 to be enrolled after work is over. "Tobacco keeps them out and they are short of hands." Ages of those present: 13 years = 1, 10 years = 2, 8 years = 2, 7 years = 1, 5 years = 1.  Location: Henderson County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a school, preschool, children, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A working man's appeal. Abraham Lincoln hated tobacco.

A working man's appeal. Abraham Lincoln hated tobacco.

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Petersburg, Virginia. Tobacco warehouses on High Street used as a prison

Petersburg, Virginia. Tobacco warehouses on High Street used as a pris...

Public domain photograph of American Civil War era building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The National Tobacco - dark, sweet

The National Tobacco - dark, sweet

Tobacco label showing U.S. Capitol and eagle. LOT subdivision subject: Views, U.S. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Lithograph by Hatch & Co., N.Y. Copyright by Jno. A. Webb.

The first nine of the Red Stockings, manufactured from the best Havana tobacco by Henry Koop, 315 Central Avenue bet. 8th and 9th Str. Cincinnati, O. / Tuchfarber, Walkley, and Moellmann, Lith., NW cor. Court & Main St., Cin. O.

The first nine of the Red Stockings, manufactured from the best Havana...

Print of tobacco package label showing baseball players on the field during game, view from behind home plate, with spectators along first base line. Filed May 31,1869.

Smith Tobacco Barn, 1/4 mile south of Secondary Road 17-34 & 1/2 mile north of Highway 17-155, Dillon, Dillon County, SC

Smith Tobacco Barn, 1/4 mile south of Secondary Road 17-34 & 1/2 mile ...

Significance: Example of the tobacco barns built in Marion & Dillon Counties between c. 1895 and the 1950s; constructed by J.L. King in 1942 (name and date scratched in chinking on facade). Survey number: HAB... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Tobacco Warehouse, 1000-1001 Fell Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Tobacco Warehouse, 1000-1001 Fell Street, B...

Significance: The B & O Railroad Tobacco Warehouse was a collection point for southern tidewater tobacco. Before being shipped to European markets, tobacco was graded, sorted and packed into hogshead barrels i... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Tobacco Warehouse, 1000-1001 Fell Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Tobacco Warehouse, 1000-1001 Fell Street, B...

Significance: The B & O Railroad Tobacco Warehouse was a collection point for southern tidewater tobacco. Before being shipped to European markets, tobacco was graded, sorted and packed into hogshead barrels i... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Tobacco Warehouse, 1000-1001 Fell Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Tobacco Warehouse, 1000-1001 Fell Street, B...

Significance: The B & O Railroad Tobacco Warehouse was a collection point for southern tidewater tobacco. Before being shipped to European markets, tobacco was graded, sorted and packed into hogshead barrels i... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Tobacco Warehouse, 1000-1001 Fell Street, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Tobacco Warehouse, 1000-1001 Fell Street, B...

Significance: The B & O Railroad Tobacco Warehouse was a collection point for southern tidewater tobacco. Before being shipped to European markets, tobacco was graded, sorted and packed into hogshead barrels i... More

Prize medal awarded--Suggett & Kimball's peerless tobacco / lith. of Moller & Forst 12 Vesey St. N.Y.

Prize medal awarded--Suggett & Kimball's peerless tobacco / lith. of M...

Tobacco label showing full-length portrait of a nude woman draped with diaphanous sheet, floating over landscape. Copyright by Suggett & Kimball.

Melochnaia torgovlia. Prodazha tabaku i krasil'nykh materialov

Melochnaia torgovlia. Prodazha tabaku i krasil'nykh materialov

Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' promyslovai︠a︡, 1871-1872, part 3, p. 39.

The pride of Columbus - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

The pride of Columbus - Lithograph, public domain, Library of Congress

Tobacco label showing Native American presenting Christopher Columbus with a sheaf of tobacco leaves; three monkeys, a dog, and a rabbit are smoking on a branch above.

Missouri Valley. Expressly manufactured for the Omaha market of the finest Vuelta Abajo tobacco by M.M.S. / Lith. of F. Heppenheimer & Co., N.Y.

Missouri Valley. Expressly manufactured for the Omaha market of the fi...

Tobacco label showing riverboat on the Missouri River. Copyright by M.M. Smith.

[Stock form for tobacco label; girl in apron leaning on broom and smoking pipe]

[Stock form for tobacco label; girl in apron leaning on broom and smok...

LOT subdivision subject: Smoking (men, women, children in the act of) - Children, Women.

[Five styles of tobacco or opium pipes]

[Five styles of tobacco or opium pipes]

Inscribed in pencil on lower left corner: Kano Dec. '78. From the "Social life" series. Gift; Mrs. David Murray; 1909. Forms part of: David Murray collection. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Libra... More

Buying tobacco by the yard in Jamaica
[Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilmington, Delaware, noon period, May 24, 1910. Young girls obviously under 14 years of age, who work about 10 hours a day every day except Saturday. Investigator, Edward F. Brown].  Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.

[Groups of girls workers at the gate of the American Tobacco Co., Wilm...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Porto [Puerto] Rico -- Raising tobacco under Cheese Cloth

Porto [Puerto] Rico -- Raising tobacco under Cheese Cloth

Public domain historical photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. Teacher expects 19 to be enrolled after work is over. "Tobacco keeps them out and they are short of hands." Ages of those present: 13 years = 1, 10 years = 2, 8 years = 2, 7 years = 1, 5 years = 1.  Location: Henderson County, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Colored School at Anthoston. Census 27, enrollment 12, attendance 7. T...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a classroom, college auditorium, school, students, teacher, teaching, studying, education, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Ora Fugate, 10 years old worming tobacco. They said they do not worm in middle of day when hot, but work right through when "suckering." See 4400.  Location: Hedges Station, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Ora Fugate, 10 years old worming tobacco. They said they do not worm i...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., Star Route. He is a renter. Boys all belong to other families and will go to Bluff City School, Div. 3, Henderson Co., when work is over. School opened 2 weeks ago, and the boys expect to be out several weeks more. 10-year old boy, Edward Goldsberry carries and drops the sticks. 11-year old Aubrey Hazeland is piling the tobacco (in front). 13-year old Dolph Hazeland piling (behind Aubrey), and 14-years old Willie Goldsberry is spiking the tobacco.  Location: Henderson County--Spottsville, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., S...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Typical farm home surrounded by tobacco and corn. Location: Warren County, Kentucky Lewis W. Hine

Typical farm home surrounded by tobacco and corn. Location: Warren Cou...

Title from NCLC caption card. In album: Agriculture. Hine no. 4524. "Div. 5" recorded on caption card as part of the geographic location; probably refers to a school district. Credit line: National Child Labor ... More

Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., Star Route. He is a renter. Boys all belong to other families and will go to Bluff City School, Div. 3, Henderson Co., when work is over. School opened 2 weeks ago, and the boys expect to be out several weeks more. 10-year old boy, Edward Goldsberry carries and drops the sticks. 11-year old Aubrey Hazeland is piling the tobacco (in front). 13-year old Dolph Hazeland piling (behind Aubrey), and 14-year old Willie Goldsberry is spiking the tobacco.  Location: Henderson County--Spottsville, Kentucky / Lewis W. Hine.

Group gathering tobacco on farm of Daniel Barrett, Spottsville, Ky., S...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of child, child labor, farmer, early 20th-century farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tobacco field. View up slope covered with tobacco
Indian delegation who called to present the President a tobacco pouch - these Indians represented their race at the burial of the Unknown Soldier

Indian delegation who called to present the President a tobacco pouch ...

Pres. Harding with Sioux and Crow chiefs and Indian Commissioner Burke; White House in background.

Locust Hill, Port Tobacco vic., Charles County, Maryland

Locust Hill, Port Tobacco vic., Charles County, Maryland

Public domain photograph of a historic place in Maryland, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a beach, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a beach, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photogra...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a person sitting on a rock, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a person sitting on a rock, Great Depressio...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Douglas, Georgia. Wife of sharecropper in town to sell their crop at the tobacco auction

Douglas, Georgia. Wife of sharecropper in town to sell their crop at t...

Public domain photograph - Georgia folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New England hurricane. Tobacco barn in Connecticut

New England hurricane. Tobacco barn in Connecticut

Public domain photograph of Connecticut in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cultivating tobacco on one of the Irwinville Farms, Georgia

Cultivating tobacco on one of the Irwinville Farms, Georgia

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

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