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4 photos tagged burley, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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• field
• farm
• lexington
• kentucky
• farming
• 1940
• marion
• libraryofcongress
• agriculture
• tobacco
• nicotiana
• fayettecounty
• solanaceae
• nicotianatabacum
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• burleytobacco
• russellspears
• format:slide=color
• tobaccoplantations
• men
• hat
• work
• labor
• harvest

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• The Library of Congress 3 photos
• Cloyne and District Historical Society 1 photo

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Cutting Burley tobacco and putting it on sticks to wilt before taking it into the curing and drying barn on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Mauro said:

  Fantastic shot!
  
  
  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Lavoro - Work -Trabajo, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• The Library of Congress said:

  duastin: We received your request to have a Library of Congress photo added to your group: Lavoro - Work - Trabajo. Please click on the "Invite this photo to..." link below the comment box and we'll accept it.

Friends of Bon Echo, 1989

from Cloyne and District Historical Society

• Darlene Dacuk said:

  Im pretty sure the 2nd from the right is Ruth Burley

• Cloyne and District Historical Society said:

  Thanks Darlene! I think you are correct.

Taking Burley tobacco in from the fields after it had been cut, to dry and cure in the barn, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• manuelfocus said:

  Old school manual labor! So many questions I'd like to ask these two...