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  • A father, mother, and daughter tour the cadillacs, at cadillac ranch, in prepapration of leaving their own mark by spray painting the cadillacs.
    DF11218-901406.tif
  • Young Elliott Head watches as his dad, Clay Head, shows him how to tie a bundle of cured, graded, dark fired tobacco for the first time. This is part of the generational transition of teaching the younger family members the craft of dark fired tobacco farming.
    DRF11355-6321-Edit.tif
  • Young Elliott Head tying bundles of cured, graded, dark fired tobacco for the first time. This is part of the generational transition of teaching the younger family members the craft of dark fired tobacco farming.
    DRF11355-6205-Edit.tif
  • Young Elliott Head watches as his dad, Clay Head, shows him how to tie a bundle of cured, graded, dark fired tobacco for the first time. This is part of the generational transition of teaching the younger family members the craft of dark fired tobacco farming.
    DRF11355-6321-Edit.tif
  • Young Elliott Head watches as his dad, Clay Head, shows him how to tie a bundle of cured, graded, dark fired tobacco for the first time. This is part of the generational transition of teaching the younger family members the craft of dark fired tobacco farming.
    DRF11355-6321-Edit-2.tif
  • Young Elliott Head tying bundles of cured, graded, dark fired tobacco for the first time. This is part of the generational transition of teaching the younger family members the craft of dark fired tobacco farming.
    DRF11355-6205-Edit-2.tif
  • A young family pose by the wall at the Mount Rushmore viewing platform.
    DF11156-12687.tif
  • A young family pose by the wall at the Mount Rushmore viewing platform.
    DF11156-12683.tif
  • A local family, out for the evening in Merida Centro, stop by a street vendor selling marquesitas - a local Yucatan favorite. This is a Mexican version of a crepe, made from Edam cheese, with a variety of fillings added for individual taste.
    DRF11263-658-2.tif
  • A man stands with his wife, and son at the candle light memorial for the Covenant School shooting in Nashville. His left arm is around the back of his young son and his left hand is place firmly on the top of his son's left shoulder.
    DRF_11359-14384.tif
  • Eddie, one of the Mexican Migrant workers, carries a large bundle of cured, dark fired tobacco stalks to the stripping table where they will be inspected, graded, and stripped from their stalks.
    DRF11355-6255-Edit.tif
  • Clay Head strips, and grades dark fired tobacco leaves during the “stripping” process. Once the dark fired tobacco leaves have been cured in the firing barn they are brought into the stripping room where each dried stalk of leaves is inspected. The choice grade leaves are removed and tied into separate bundles.
    DRF11355-5193-Edit-2.tif
  • Young Elliott Head pushes a tied bundle of dark fired tobacco leaves into a slot in one of the holding bins in preparation to be shipped.
    DRF11355-6244-Edit.tif
  • Clay Head strips, and grades dark fired tobacco leaves during the “stripping” process. Once the dark fired tobacco leaves have been cured in the firing barn they are brought into the stripping room where each dried stalk of leaves is inspected. The choice grade leaves are removed and tied into separate bundles.
    DRF11355-5173-Edit-2.tif
  • Clay Head strips, and grades dark fired tobacco leaves during the “stripping” process. Once the dark fired tobacco leaves have been cured in the firing barn they are brought into the stripping room where each dried stalk of leaves is inspected. The choice grade leaves are removed and tied into separate bundles.
    DRF11355-5194-Edit-2.tif
  • Eddie, one of the Mexican Migrant Workers places bundled, graded, dark fired tobacco leaves into the holding bins which signifies that the bundles have been inspected, and graded, and are ready to be shipped.
    DRF11355-5158-Edit-2.tif
  • Clay Head strips, and grades dark fired tobacco leaves during the “stripping” process. Once the dark fired tobacco leaves have been cured in the firing barn they are brought into the stripping room where each dried stalk of leaves is inspected. The choice grade leaves are removed and tied into separate bundles.
    DRF11355-5184-Edit-2.tif
  • Eddie, one of the Mexican Migrant workers, carries a large bundle of cured, dark fired tobacco stalks to the stripping table where they will be inspected, graded, and stripped from their stalks.
    DRF11355-6259-Edit-2.tif
  • Eddie, one of the Mexican Migrant workers, carries a large bundle of cured, dark fired tobacco stalks to the stripping table where they will be inspected, graded, and stripped from their stalks.
    DRF11355-6259-Edit.tif
  • DRF11355-3825-Edit.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-31-2.tif
  • DRF11355-4101-Edit.tif
  • Clay Head strips, and grades dark fired tobacco leaves during the “stripping” process. Once the dark fired tobacco leaves have been cured in the firing barn they are brought into the stripping room where each dried stalk of leaves is inspected. The choice grade leaves are removed and tied into separate bundles.
    DRF11355-6193-2.tif
  • Sawdust is dumped from a front loader onto the wooden planks that cover the dirt floor of the firing barn in preparation for burning as part of the drying and curing process of the dark tobacco leaves that hang in the rafters above.
    DRF11355-5208-Edit.tif
  • Eddie, one of the Mexican Migrant Workers, spreads the large mounds of sawdust now covering the boards that were laid on the barn floor, with a large metal coal shovel.
    DRF11355-5188-Edit.tif
  • Terry Head lights the dried tobacco stalks that are surrounded by large sawdust mounds. These burning stalks will ignite the sawdust, and the wooden planks that lay beneath to create a long burning, smoldering fire, that will dry and cure the dark tobacco leaves that hang in the tiers above.
    DRF11355-4979-Edit.tif
  • Workers shovel mounds of sawdust to cover the wooden planks that lay on the dirt floor of the firing barn in preparation for lighting the fires that cure the dark tobacco that hangs in the rafters above.
    DRF11355-4724-Edit.tif
  • Eddie, one of the Mexican Migrant workers, carries a large bundle of cured, dark fired tobacco stalks to the stripping table where they will be inspected, graded, and stripped from their stalks.
    DRF11355-6255-Edit-2.tif
  • Clay Head strips, and grades dark fired tobacco leaves during the “stripping” process. Once the dark fired tobacco leaves have been cured in the firing barn they are brought into the stripping room where each dried stalk of leaves is inspected. The choice grade leaves are removed and tied into separate bundles.
    DRF11355-6195-2.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-68-2.tif
  • Clay Head strips, and grades dark fired tobacco leaves during the “stripping” process. Once the dark fired tobacco leaves have been cured in the firing barn they are brought into the stripping room where each dried stalk of leaves is inspected. The choice grade leaves are removed and tied into separate bundles.
    DRF11355-6171-2.tif
  • Headlights from a parked pickup truck illuminate the doors of the firing barn in the predawn hours of the morning.
    DRF11355-4502-Edit.tif
  • Young Elliott Head pushes a tied bundle of dark fired tobacco leaves into a slot in one of the holding bins in preparation to be shipped.
    DRF11355-6244-Edit-2.tif
  • Clay Head strips, and grades dark fired tobacco leaves during the “stripping” process. Once the dark fired tobacco leaves have been cured in the firing barn they are brought into the stripping room where each dried stalk of leaves is inspected. The choice grade leaves are removed and tied into separate bundles.
    DRF11355-6183-2.tif
  • Clint Head uses a long thin stick to light the fires on the floor of the firing barn to dry the hanging tobacco leaves.
    DRF11355-3303-Edit.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-68.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-64.tif
  • Clint Head uses a flashlight to check the curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves hanging in the smokey firing barn.
    DRF11355-2787-Edit.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-78.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-34.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-86.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-47.tif
  • Clint Head uses a long thin stick to light the fires on the floor of the firing barn to dry the hanging tobacco leaves.
    DRF11355-3670-Edit.tif
  • Clint Head and his father, Terry Head spread shovel loads of sawdust on the firing barn floor to cover the dried tobacco stalks that will be lit on fire for the drying and curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves.
    DRF11355-4189-Edit.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-94.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-92.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-90.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-75.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-66.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-51.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-41.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-39.tif
  • Terry Head spread shovel loads of sawdust on the firing barn floor to cover the dried tobacco stalks that will be lit on fire for the drying and curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves.
    DRF11355-2992-Edit.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-82.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-73.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-62.tif
  • Clint Head and his father, Terry Head spread shovel loads of sawdust on the firing barn floor to cover the dried tobacco stalks that will be lit on fire for the drying and curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves.
    DRF11355-4182-Edit.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-88.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-80.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-77.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-31.tif
  • A Mexican migrant worker lays the large, white, Styrofoam seed trays, seeded with tobacco seeds, in a large pool of water to be germinated.
    DF11001_ 33042-2.tif
  • Terry Head spread shovel loads of sawdust on the firing barn floor to cover the dried tobacco stalks that will be lit on fire for the drying and curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves.
    DRF11355-3024.tif
  • Terry Head spread shovel loads of sawdust on the firing barn floor to cover the dried tobacco stalks that will be lit on fire for the drying and curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves.
    DRF11355-3057.tif
  • Clint Head uses a flashlight to check the curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves hanging in the smokey firing barn.
    DRF11355-2797.tif
  • Clint Head uses a flashlight to check the curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves hanging in the smokey firing barn.
    DRF11355-2787.tif
  • Dark fired tobacco plants hang tightly in a firing barn to be dried and cured.
    DRF11355-3091.tif
  • Terry Head spread shovel loads of sawdust on the firing barn floor to cover the dried tobacco stalks that will be lit on fire for the drying and curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves.
    DRF11355-3043.tif
  • Interior of the firing barn with drying tobacco leaves hanging and smoldering smoke rising from the floor.
    DRF11355-2828.tif
  • Clint Head and his father, Terry Head spread shovel loads of sawdust on the firing barn floor to cover the dried tobacco stalks that will be lit on fire for the drying and curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves.
    _DFB8533.tif
  • Clint Head uses a long thin stick to light the fires on the floor of the firing barn to dry the hanging tobacco leaves.
    _DF11211.tif
  • A Mexican Migrant Worker stands on a metal flatbed trailer holding a stick loaded with harvested green dark tobacco leaves that he will load into the tiers of the firing barn behind him.
    DF11001_ 34140-2-Edit.tif
  • Large styrofoam seed trays with rich, green, germinated tobacco plants emerging from the soil.
    DF11001_ 33130.dng
  • Large white styrofoam seeding trays are passed into the base of a large wooden hopper filled with potting soil. The seeding trays are filled with soil in preparation for being seeded.
    DF11001_ 32810.dng
  • Clint Head uses a flashlight to check the curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves hanging in the smokey firing barn.
    DRF11355-2788.tif
  • Clint Head uses a flashlight to check the curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves hanging in the smokey firing barn.
    DRF11355-2785.tif
  • Clint Head and his father, Terry Head spread shovel loads of sawdust on the firing barn floor to cover the dried tobacco stalks that will be lit on fire for the drying and curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves.
    _DFB8525.tif
  • A Mexican migrant worker plants dark tobacco seedings by hand in a large field under a clear blue sky.
    DF11001_ 33585-Edit.tif
  • Dark Tobacco seedlings are loaded onto a planter that is towed behind a tractor. As the wagon is pulled through the field seedlings are manually placed into  armatures that plant them into the ground.
    DF11001_ 33601-2-Edit.tif
  • A pick up truck pulling a wagon along a dirt farm road early in the morning with dust rising from the tires.
    DF11001_ 33434-2-Edit.tif
  • Trays of Dark Tobacco Seedlings are removed from the greenhouse and loaded into a wodden wagon to be transported to the tobacco fields for planting.
    DF11001_ 33422-Edit.tif
  • A Mexican migrant worker lays the large, white, Styrofoam seed trays, seeded with tobacco seeds, in a large pool of water to be germinated.
    DF11001_ 32911.tif
  • Tiny tobacco seeds are placed in small squares in a large, white, Styrofoam seeding tray.
    DF11001_ 32817.dng
  • A worker takes the seeded, large white styrofoam seed trays and stacks them at the end of the assembly line in the greenhouse.
    DF11001_ 32767.dng
  • Dark fired tobacco plants hang tightly in a firing barn to be dried and cured.
    DRF11355-3088.tif
  • Interior of the firing barn with drying tobacco leaves hanging and smoldering smoke rising from the floor.
    DRF11355-3114.tif
  • Terry Head spread shovel loads of sawdust on the firing barn floor to cover the dried tobacco stalks that will be lit on fire for the drying and curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves.
    DRF11355-3035.tif
  • Clint Head uses a long thin stick to light the fires on the floor of the firing barn to dry the hanging tobacco leaves.
    _DF12217.tif
  • Clint Head uses a long thin stick to light the fires on the floor of the firing barn to dry the hanging tobacco leaves.
    _DF12194.tif
  • Clint Head uses a long thin stick to light the fires on the floor of the firing barn to dry the hanging tobacco leaves.
    _DF12129.tif
  • A Mexican Migrant Worker follows the planter, planting Dark Tobacco seedlings in case one is not planted properly into the ground.
    DF11001_ 33602-2-Edit.tif
  • Trays of Dark Tobacco Seedlings are removed from the greenhouse and loaded into a wodden wagon to be transported to the tobacco fields for planting.
    DF11001_ 33425-Edit.tif
  • An adapted lawnmower is used to trim the tops of the tobacco seedlings in the greenhouse. This helps to develop a stronger tobacco plant.
    DF11001_ 33283.dng
  • Large white Styrofoam seed trays filled with soil are passed along an assembly line in the greenhouse, then placed in a device that uses vacuum to gather, and hold the tiny individual tobacco seeds into precise positions that match up to the tiny squares on the seeding tray.
    DF11001_ 32797.dng
  • A worker lays the large, white, Styrofoam seed trays, seeded with tobacco seeds, in a large pool of water to be germinated.
    DF11001_ 32756-Edit.tif
  • Overview of a partially harvested tobacco field in Robertson County, Tennessee.
    DRF11355-1-2.tif
  • A detail corner view of a new style firing barn with smoke emerging from the top set against a blue sky.
    DRF11355-3078.tif
  • A new-style black metal firing barn with smoke emanating from the top sits against a treelike and clear blue sky in Robertson County, Tennessee
    DRF11355-3075.tif
  • Clint Head uses a flashlight to check the curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves hanging in the smokey firing barn.
    DRF11355-3086.tif
  • Terry Head spread shovel loads of sawdust on the firing barn floor to cover the dried tobacco stalks that will be lit on fire for the drying and curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves.
    DRF11355-3060.tif
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