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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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• Burley tobacco is placed on sticks to wilt after cutting, before it is taken into the brn for drying and curing, 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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• Taking burley tobacco in from the fields, after it has 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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• Burley tobacco is placed on sticks to wilt after cutting, before it is taken into the barn for drying and curing 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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• Burley tobacco is placed on sticks to wilt after cutting,before it is taken into the barn for drying and curing, 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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• The Parkette, a nostalgic, 1950s-era drive-in restaurant in Lexington, Kentucky (LOC)

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  • Date taken: 2020
  • Date uploaded: 2022-08-26
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