| Description |
108 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-101) and index. |
| Contents |
Tobacco Fields: The Connecticut Intervales -- Tobacco Leaves: Broadleaf and Shade-Grown -- Tobacco People: Yankees, Polanders, and Jamaicans -- Tobacco Sheds: Connecticut Valley Vernacular -- "How Beautiful Is Use" -- The Waning of the Sheds. |
| Summary |
"James F. O'Gorman reads through oral histories, newspaper reports, and the terse factual writing of agricultural diaries to bring to life the risks and rewards of living close to the seasons, at the mercy of rainfall and sunshine. He has collected an array of vintage and newly commissioned photos of the work of growing tobacco, from de facto portraits of anonymous laborers to images of the sheds themselves, with all their ventilating doors open, welcoming the air. In this book, O'Gorman treats both the people and the sheds with the respect and admiration their precarious presence requires."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Tobacco -- Connecticut River Valley.
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Tobacco curing -- Connecticut River Valley.
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Vernacular architecture -- Connecticut River Valley.
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Connecticut River Valley -- Social life and customs.
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Connecticut River Valley -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Tobacco. (OCoLC)fst01432109
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Tobacco curing. (OCoLC)fst01151887
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Vernacular architecture. (OCoLC)fst01165401
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United States -- Connecticut River Valley.
(OCoLC)fst01273970
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| ISBN |
081223670X (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780812236705 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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