Tag: Tobacco

“Those who complain often don’t come back”: Stories of Migrant Life

“Those who complain often don’t come back”: Stories of Migrant Life

Kyle Warren, with photos by interns for Student Action with Farmworkers
Into the Belly of the Beast: The 2002 North Carolina Flue-Cured Tobacco Tour

Into the Belly of the Beast: The 2002 North Carolina Flue-Cured Tobacco Tour

Barbara Hahn
The Grand Ole Opry and Big Tobacco: Radio Scripts from the Files of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, 1948 to 1959

The Grand Ole Opry and Big Tobacco: Radio Scripts from the Files of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, 1948 to 1959

Louis M. Kyriakoudes
The South, the Nation, and Tobacco

The South, the Nation, and Tobacco

Larry J. Griffin
Bright Leaves by Ross McElwee (Review)

Bright Leaves by Ross McElwee (Review)

Barbara Hahn
Tobacco’s Civil War: Images of the Sectional Conflict on Tobacco Package Labels

Tobacco’s Civil War: Images of the Sectional Conflict on Tobacco Package Labels

Paul D. H. Quigley
A New Cure for Brightleaf Tobacco: The Origins of the Tobacco Queen during the Great Depression

A New Cure for Brightleaf Tobacco: The Origins of the Tobacco Queen during the Great Depression

Blain Roberts
The Duke

The Duke

Duncan Murrell
To Know Tobacco: Southern Identity in China in the Jim Crow Era

To Know Tobacco: Southern Identity in China in the Jim Crow Era

Nan Enstad
Tobacco Mosaic: Lexicon and The Sharecroppers

Tobacco Mosaic: Lexicon and The Sharecroppers

Davis McCombs
There’s No Crying in a Tobacco Field

There’s No Crying in a Tobacco Field

Pepper Capps Hill
“Pride in Tobacco”: Roycroft’s Warehouse, 1982

“Pride in Tobacco”: Roycroft’s Warehouse, 1982

John T. Jones

The old saying “f/8 and be there” applies to these photos. In the early to mid 1980s, I was doing street photography in downtown Durham. Especially compelling was the warehouse district, home of the muscular, oversized tobacco auction warehouses and their supporting businesses.