Illustrates various stages in the processing of tobacco, and is captioned, from top to bottom: a) the common tobacco house; b) tobacco hanging upon a scaffold; c) the operation of prizing; d) inside view of a tobacco house, shewing the tobacco hanging to cure; e) an outside view of public warehouses; f) an inside view of the public warehouse, shewing the process of inspection.

William Tatham, An Historical and Practical Essay on the Culture and Commerce of Tobacco (London, 1800), facing p. 29.

English

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NW0029

North America--Virginia

"Tobacco Production, Virginia (?) late 18th cent.", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed April 13, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1121