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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. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Taking Burley tobacco in from the fields after it had been cut, to dry and cure in the barn, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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• Field of Burley tobacco on farm of Russell Spears, drying and curing barn in the background, vicinity of Lexington, Ky. (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 1939
  • Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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