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  • A rural laundermat, with a heavily weathered wooden ficade, in the rural Tennessee town of Boiling Springs.
    DF11084-1475.tif
  • A rural laundermat, with a heavily weathered wooden ficade, in the rural Tennessee town of Boiling Springs.
    DF11015-573.tif
  • Overview of a partially harvested tobacco field in Robertson County, Tennessee.
    DRF11355-1-2.tif
  • Overview of a partially harvested tobacco field in Robertson County, Tennessee.
    DRF11355-1.tif
  • A large wooden cross, draped with two American Flags - one on each side of the crosspiece, sits in a wooded area along side Interstate 40, through Dixon, Tennessee.
    DF11223-60725-Edit.tif
  • DRF11272-10887.tif
  • A young waitress working the counter at a Waffle House restaurant in Dixon, Tennessee, fills out the order on her order pad before calling it to the cook.
    DRF11314-112.tif
  • DRF11272-10759.tif
  • Blind Mississippi Morris playing at Blues City Cafe in Memphis, Tennessee
    DF_11185-503148.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
  • Two roadside markers, apparently for a husband and wife who were killed at this location along Old Copper Road in Ocoee, Tennessee.
    _DSC0181_judyandbill_bw_final.tif
  • "If You Died Today Where Would You Spend Eternity" is displayed on a billboard along Interstate 40 through Tennessee.
    DF11075_ 31384.tif
  • Tourists congest, on a bright, sunny day, at the corner of 5th and Broadway, in the heart of Nashville, Tennessee's toursit district.
    DF11053_ 46109.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-68-2.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-31-2.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers working high in the tiers of the firing barn hanging sticks filled with deep green, harvested dark tobacco leaves that are being passed up from ground level.
    DRF11355-1697-2.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers working high in the tiers of the firing barn hanging sticks filled with deep green, harvested dark tobacco leaves that are being passed up from ground level.
    DRF11355-1699-2.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-127.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-269.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-262.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-41.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-381.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-376.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-354.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-349.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the field gathering freshly cut tobacco leaves from the ground and placing them into bundles in preparation for spiking.
    DRF11355-202.tif
  • Scaffold Wagons fully loaded with harvested Dark Tobacco leaves sits in an open grassy area with a new metal firing barn, and a large pile of sawdust in the background set against a blue sky with white clouds.
    DRF11355-1676-2.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-102.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-153.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-150.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-148.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-108.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-314.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-290.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-288.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-285.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-280.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-264.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the field gathering freshly cut tobacco leaves from the ground and placing them into bundles in preparation for spiking.
    DRF11355-219.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the field gathering freshly cut tobacco leaves from the ground and placing them into bundles in preparation for spiking.
    DRF11355-215.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.
    DRF11355-86.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.
    DRF11355-73.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
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-47.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-39.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-34.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-364.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-352.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-350.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-353.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers working high in the tiers of the firing barn hanging sticks filled with deep green, harvested dark tobacco leaves.
    DRF11355-1757-2.tif
  • Hundreds of sticks, each ladened with Dark Tobacco plants hang in long rows of the tiers in the firing barn waiting to be dried and cured.
    DRF11355-1719-2-Edit.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-272.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the field gathering freshly cut tobacco leaves from the ground and placing them into bundles in preparation for spiking.
    DRF11355-209.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.
    DRF11355-82.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 walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-351.tif
  • Clint Head gathering freshly cut tobacco leaves from the ground and placing them into bundles in preparation for spiking.
    DRF11355-221.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers working high in the tiers of the firing barn hanging sticks filled with deep green, harvested dark tobacco leaves.
    DRF11355-2007.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-107-2.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-154.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-294.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-293.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-259.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the field gathering freshly cut tobacco leaves from the ground and placing them into bundles in preparation for spiking.
    DRF11355-216.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the field gathering freshly cut tobacco leaves from the ground and placing them into bundles in preparation for spiking.
    DRF11355-198.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.
    DRF11355-62.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the length of the tobacco field spiking the freshly harvested tobacco leaves. This process involves grabbing a harvested tobacco plant by the stalk, lifting it high overhead, and thrusting it down onto a wooden stick with a removable pointed metal cone at the top used to penetrate the tick stalks causing them to split and slide over the stick.
    DRF11355-258.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers walk the field gathering freshly cut tobacco leaves from the ground and placing them into bundles in preparation for spiking.
    DRF11355-207.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-31.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.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.
    DRF11355-5194-Edit-2.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, pre-teenage boys carry bundles of sticks to throw systematically throughout the tobacco field to be used by workers to spike harvested dark tobacco plants onto them.
    DRF11355-396.tif
  • Young, pre-teenage boys carry bundles of sticks to throw systematically throughout the tobacco field to be used by workers to spike harvested dark tobacco plants onto them.
    DRF11355-408.tif
  • DRF11355-426-Edit.tif
  • Two Mexican migrant workers walking along a clearing in the tobacco field under a cloudless blue sky.
    DRF11355-167-Edit.tif
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