Stringing tobacco leaves for curing, tobacco research experiment station, Oxford, N.C.

Child helping to prepare tobacco leaves for curing, 1940

Combination tobacco and sweet potato curing house made of concrete blocks

Curing tobacco on W. P. Joyner's farm in Zebulon, North Carolina, 1919

Family stringing tobacco for curing

Farmer checking to see if tobacco is "cured," Wake County, September 1960.

Grading tobacco, September 29, 1954.

Handing and stringing sticks of tobacco before hanging them on a rack

Hanging tobacco leaves for curing, ca. 1939

J. T. Morgan standing next to his new oil-burning tobacco curing furnace, near Zebulon, North Carolina, September 14, 1927

Metal tobacco barn, Nash County, North Carolina, July 26, 1928

Modern frame tobacco barn successfully used on the state test farm in Oxford, North Carolina. Designed, built, and used by Mr. E. G. Moss, superintendent, August 1928

Modern tobacco pack house designed, built, and used by Mr. E. G. Moss, superintendent of the tobacco test farm in Oxford, North Carolina, July 1928

New frame tobacco barn built on farm of Mr. Will Baker, Whitakers, North Carolina, July 1928

Packing tied bundle tobacco in strip room, September 27, 1954.

People sorting through tobacco leaves on a table, 1940

People tying hands of tobacco leaves for curing, 1940

Preparing tobacco leaves from the field

Preparing tobacco leaves from the field

Removing hands of tobacco leaves from the poles after curing, 1940