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Box making in the T.B. Williams Tobacco Factory, Richmond, Virginia – Vintage Wall Art

Box making in the T.B. Williams Tobacco Factory, Richmond, Virginia, [1899(?)] — historic photograph
Box making in the T.B. Williams Tobacco Factory, Richmond, Virginia, [1899(?)]. Historic photograph from the Richmond collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Box making in the T.B. Williams Tobacco Factory, Richmond, Virginia, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Box making in the T.B. Williams Tobacco Factory, Richmond, Virginia

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At the T.B. Williams Tobacco Factory in Richmond, the work shown is box making, the packing that followed manufacturing and kept finished tobacco moving to market. Richmond was one of the largest tobacco manufacturing centers in the South during the 1890s, and its factories relied heavily on Black workers for labor that was often hard, repetitive and poorly paid. The record dates the picture only tentatively to about 1899, so it is best read as a glimpse of the city's industrial workforce at the close of the century.

Created / published[1899(?)]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1900.
SubjectsAfrican Americans--Employment--Virginia--Richmond--1890-1900. Box industry--Virginia--Richmond--1890-1900. Tobacco industry--Virginia--Richmond--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,129 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-172250

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