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Cheesecloth covering used in growing shade grown tobacco; the stalks lying on the ground are left after the tobacco is cut; Suffield, Conn. (LOC)
Delano, Jack,, photographer.
Cheesecloth covering used in growing shade grown tobacco; the stalks lying on the ground are left after the tobacco is cut; Suffield, Conn.
1940 Sept.
1 slide : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
Tobacco plantations
United States--Connecticut--Suffield (Town)
Format: Slides--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-2 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a33830
Call Number: LC-USF35-30
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abg@shade (59 months ago | reply)
Whoever wrote this caption was used to Southern tobacco harvesting where the entire plant was cut, leaves and all , and hung to dry. Connecticut Shade was harvested leaf by leaf ("Primings" - usually 3 leaves at a time as they matured; 5-6 "primings" a season) and the leaves dried. The photo shows end of the harvest; the shade cloth sidewall has been taken down & the plants knocked down to rot into the soil as a green fertilizer. The shade top cloth will come off next and be recycled as sidewall the next season. You can see that the pole rows haven't been cut down yet - the plants are still pushing the top cloth up - they had to be cut by hand w/ machetes.
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tarponrd2002 (15 months ago | reply)
There is a 1961 film, Parrish, that I saw on AMC last month. I knew about the Connecticut tobacco but did not know the shade process. The movie is more of a soap opera but is great about describing the process and area.
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