Tobacco – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Tobacco, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Tobacco is the only detail the record gives us, so this picture sits under the broad heading of cultivation and trade rather than any single event. Tobacco was one of the first crops to make colonial North America and the early Atlantic economy profitable, grown on large plantations and shipped to European markets in quantities that shaped labor systems, land use and settlement patterns for generations. Images of the plant, the drying sheds and the workers who handled the leaf often show the labor behind that trade, so it is worth looking closely at who appears in the scene and what kind of work is being done.
| Original scan | 630 × 832 px |
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| Reference | 1481 |
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