Burley tobacco
Subtitle: preparing, grading, selling and reporting
Contributors: United States. Department of Agriculture. Office of Information; United States. Agricultural Marketing Service
Series: Photo series -- no. 49; Photo series (United States. Department of Agriculture) -- no. 49.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Office of Information, Photography Division
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Burley tobacco; Tobacco industry; Pictorial works; Marketing
Notes: Caption title.

"The 1959 Burley tobacco crop was 500 million pounds. It is used mainly in cigarettes and pipe tobacco. One of the principal producing areas is Kentucky. It is also produced in sections of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana. The pictures in this series were taken in Lexington, Kentucky, for USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service."

19 captioned photographs.

"May 1960."