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  • Collection: Agricultural Empowerment in Academics, Research, and Extension

Hanging tobacco leaves for curing, ca. 1939

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This black and white photograph is an example of a very small tobacco farm. This is a rural setting in which the whole family is involved in the production of tobacco.

Bulk Curing Simplifies Tobacco Mechanization, Paper No. 59-311, 1959.

ua100_014-002-bx0028-005-000.pdf
This report from the 1959 Annual Meeting for the American Society of Agricultural Engineers claims bulk curing simplifies tobacco mechanization.

What is a Primary Source? A How-To Guide for High School Students

Traditional Lesson Plan – Primary Sources.pdf
This lesson plan teaches high school students how to identify, analyze, and interpret primary sources such as textual documents, media, and oral histories. Teachers can use the lesson plan with primary sources of their choosing.

Research Apprentices in the Field, 1981.

USDA 1981 UA 100.40.6.pdf
These two pictures show the African American Research Apprentices in the field for their summer study. The students are interacting with farmers and potentially farming families or faculty.

Phillip Morris Scholarship Winners, circa 1970-1979

Phillip Morris scholarship UA023.006.1 folder 5.pdf
This overhead photograph shows NC State agricultural student scholars touring a tobacco factory. While the majority of winners are white males, some scholarship recipients were African American women and white women.