Malcolm Carraco collection on tobacco farming
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Malcolm Carraco collection on tobacco farming
- Date
- 1948, undated
- Creator
- Carraco, Malcolm L.
- Extent
- 0.25 Cubic feet
- Subjects
- Tobacco farms--Kentucky--Shelbyville
- Tobacco industry--Kentucky--History.
- Tobacco industry--Kentucky--Lexington.
- Tobacco industry--Kentucky.
- Tobacco industry.
- Tobacco workers
- Tobacco--Kentucky.
- Tobacco.
- Preferred Citation
- 2010av005: [identification of item], Malcolm Carraco Collection on Tobacco Farming, 1948, undated, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Tobacco was the state's biggest cash crop, and by 1820, Kentucky was producing twenty percent of the nation's tobacco. The flourishing of Kentucky's economy came at a cost to the individual tobacco farmers, however, and many tobacco farming families suffered poverty and disease.
- Scope and Content
- The Malcolm Carraco Collection on Tobacco Farming (dated 1948, undated; 0.25 cubic feet; 31 items) comprises 31 images of tobacco farming and processing in Carollton, Kentucky. Most pertain to Ralph M. Marker Tobacco Redrying. These pictures were found in Golden Burley tobacco warehouse.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- Property rights reside with the University of Kentucky. The University of Kentucky holds the copyright for materials created in the course of business by University of Kentucky employees. Copyright for all other materials has not been assigned to the University of Kentucky. For information about permission to reproduce or publish, please contact Special Collections.
Contents of the Collection
R. M. Barker Tobacco Co. Re-dryer office, undated
Mr. Ralph Malcolm Barker, 1948 February
Group of men in office examining neckties (including Jack Buster wearing a hat and Bill Marrs on the far right, in a white chair), undated
Group of men talking in tobacco office, undated
Secretaries for R.M. Barker working in office, undated
Secretaries for R.M. Barker working in office (Mary Ellen Wyrick on the far left, Weggie Rice standing, Lena Hill sitting next to window), undated
Man dragging one of the dollies with tobacco, undated
Women working with hands of tobacco, undated
Men showing hands of tobacco on sticks (Clifford Bishop far left, Robert Pollard next to Bishop, Watt Sutherland far right), undated
Men with dollies containing loose tobacco, undated
Man looking inside scale room - tobacco is weighed, undated
Men with dollies containing loose tobacco, undated
Women sorting hands of tobacco, undated
Mr. Cooper building hogshead, undated
Men completing construction of hogsheads, undated
Hogsheads ready for packing, undated
Hogsheads being filled, undated
Loading and compressing tobacco in hogsheads, undated
Stacking sealed hogsheads on sides, undated
Men shoveling and sweeping up tobacco, undated
Man feeding tobacco into re-dryer, undated
Men unloading tobacco with winch, undated
Men loading tobacco palettes on sleds, undated
Men lifting tobacco palette with forklift, undated
Women placing hands of tobacco on sticks, undated
Men handling sticks of tobacco hands, undated
Scale for weighing tobacco, undated
Scale for weighing tobacco, undated
General view of re-dryer rooms, undated
Woman placing tobacco on conveyer into re-dryer, undated
Man standing outside drying room with steam, undated
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