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  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-68-2.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.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.
    DRF11355-31-2.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
  • Terry Head stands at the edge of the firing barn entrance and using a large aluminum coal-style shovel, shovels sawdust onto the dried tobacco stalks in preparation for firing the tobacco.
    _DF11467.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-41.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
  • Tiny tobacco seeds are placed in small squares in a large, white, Styrofoam seeding tray.
    DF11001_ 32817.dng
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
    DRF11355-34.tif
  • A Mexican migrant worker plants dark tobacco seedings by hand in a large field under a clear blue sky.
    DF11001_ 33585-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-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
  • 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.
    DRF11355-5173-Edit-2.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.
    DRF11355-349.tif
  • Dark fired tobacco plants hang tightly in a firing barn to be dried and cured.
    DRF11355-3091.tif
  • Dark fired tobacco plants hang tightly in a firing barn to be dried and cured.
    DRF11355-3088.tif
  • Clint Head uses a flashlight to check the curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves hanging in the smokey firing barn.
    DRF11355-2784.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.
    DRF11355-127.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.
    DRF11355-290.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.
    DRF11355-269.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.
    DRF11355-264.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.
    DRF11355-90.tif
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-39.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
  • 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 carpeting of rich, green tobacco seedlings covers the germinating pools that comprise the floor of the greenhouse.
    DF11001_ 33367.dng
  • Large styrofoam seed trays with rich, green, germinated tobacco plants emerging from the soil.
    DF11001_ 33130.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_ 32839.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
  • 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
  • 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.
    DRF11355-376.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.
    DRF11355-350.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 cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-102.tif
  • Interior of the firing barn with drying tobacco leaves hanging and smoldering smoke rising from the floor.
    DRF11355-3114.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
  • Mexican migrant workers cutting the dark red tobacco plants in the field under a cloudless sky.
    DRF11355-148.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.
    DRF11355-285.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 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.
    DRF11355-80.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.
    DRF11355-75.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
    DRF11355-351.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
  • Interior of the firing barn with drying tobacco leaves hanging and smoldering smoke rising from the floor.
    DRF11355-2828.tif
  • Clint Head uses a flashlight to check the curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves hanging in the smokey firing barn.
    DRF11355-2813.tif
  • Clint Head uses a flashlight to check the curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves hanging in the smokey firing barn.
    DRF11355-2801.tif
  • Clint Head uses a flashlight to check the curing process of the dark fired tobacco leaves hanging in the smokey firing barn.
    DRF11355-2790.tif
  • 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
  • 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.
    DRF11355-108.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.
    DRF11355-294.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.
    DRF11355-272.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 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.
    DRF11355-62.tif
  • A large metal lid with hundreds of tiny holes uses a vacuum to hold individual tiny tobacco seeds in precise positions to match up with the small soil-filled squares of the seeding tray.
    DF11001_ 33012-2.tif
  • 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_ 32726-2.tif
  • A carpeting of rich, green tobacco seedlings covers the germinating pools that comprise the floor of the greenhouse.
    DF11001_ 33367.tif
  • Large styrofoam seed trays with rich, green, germinated tobacco plants emerging from the soil.
    DF11001_ 33130.tif
  • 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_ 32840.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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • A Mexican migrant worker plants dark tobacco seedings by hand in a large field under a clear blue sky.
    DF11001_ 33585.tif
  • A Mexican migrant worker plants dark tobacco seedings by hand in a large field under a clear blue sky.
    DF11001_ 33582.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.
    DRF11355-352.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.
    DRF11355-353.tif
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