Image Workshop - Documentation and Download Option(s)
 1981-1990 |
File Identification:Outlaw-032 | Date Scanned:June, 2006 | Source of Scanned Image:W.H. Outlaw Jr. | |
| Original Source of Image:W.H. Outlaw Jr. | Digital Archiver:W.H. Outlaw Jr. | Image Restorer: | ||
| Original Image Size: | Scan Resolution (dpi) (Reduced files=200 dpi):200 | Exact Date of Original Image: | ||
| Estimated Date of Original Image:1982 | Basis for Date Estimate:habits then | Unreduced File Size(px):1676 x 2110 | ||
| Location:Farms Nashville, GA | Background:- | Activity:- | ||
| Unreduced File Size(MB):4.6 | Reduced File Size (px):635 x 800 | Reduced File Size (KB):205 | ||
| Information with Photo: | ||||
| Subjects:Buildings on the Sam Watson Homeplace and the W.H. Outlaw farm. | ||||
| Comments:INCOMPLETE WHO: Upper Left: The last tobacco barn on the Outlaw place. Originally, this barn had a shelter wrapped all the way around. It was tin-roofed, but the sides were logs that were chinked with clay. (Although I cannot remember chinking this barn, I was about when the last log barn at the Watson place was re-chinked. We went down in the woods near the nw quardrant of Outlaw Road and Watson Road and dug a hole about 3 ft wide and as deep.) The north side of this barn faced a small lane that was a continuation essentially of the road up to the farm and which continued with fencing on both sides down to the east side of the field, near the creek. As the image shows, the logs were spaced widely, and sawtimber was nailed over the chinking. The north side had the barn door (visible in the photo) and was the location where tobacco was brought from the field to the barn. Tobacco was removed from the sled and stacked on the benches. Stringers, usually women, accepted hands of tobacco from handers, who stood on either side. Hands of leaves (3-8, depending on size) were handed to the stringer who looped twine are the stems, first a hand on one side, then the other until 30-60 lbs of tobacco was strung onto a tobacco stick,nominally 4.5 feet long. A sled man or boy continually brought sleds of tobacco from the field and as a stick of tobacco finished, a barn man or boy removed the stick and placed it on parallel timbers (tiers or tier poles). (See Tobacco-003, an photo of unidentified origin; note that the typical number of stringers was 3-4.)At lunch and at the conclusion of the field day, the croppers would rehang and distribute the sticks on tier poles through out the barn. That usually took three--one on the ground to hand sticks up, one at an intermediate level who passed sticks up, then the man near the top of the barn. Of course, as the barn filled from the top down, one, then two of the men were not needed. Of all the jobs, this was maybe the worst in tobacco work in my opinion--the humidity in the barn was very high (sometimes the tobacco was wet when cropped) and the temperature was very high. The working position was awkward (standing with legs spraddled). (. . . looks like the text for this page was truncated?) Last edit: 2011-12-27 |
||||
| Download Supplemental Image A | Download Reduced Image (Original Image can be supplied upon request.) |
Download Supplemental Image B | ||
