Rogers Royal

Item Info

Title:
Rogers Royal
Date:
November 2002
Creator:
Andrews, Jesse
Description:

  • Caption by photographer (Andrews): "Photographed on his farm near Climax, Va., Nov., 2002. Mr. Royal is holding a stick of cured bright leaf tobacco. He is the last farmer in Pittsylvania county to cure his tobacco with wood. This is practically a lost art, having been replaced almost completely with oil and propane curing by the mid-1970s."

  • Print number: JA_POR_49-19

Location:
Subject:
Tobacco farmers
Format:
Extent:
11 x 14 in.
Digital Collection:
Jesse Andrews Photographs
Source Collection:
Jesse Pyrant Andrews photographs and oral histories, 1973-2022
Provenance:
The Jesse Andrews photographs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2011.
Rights:
No Re-Use
In Copyright
Rights Note:
This item is made available for research, scholarship, and private study. Copyright in this item has not been transferred to Duke University. For reuses of this item beyond those permitted by fair use or otherwise allowed under the Copyright Act, please consult: https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/research/citations-and-permissions.
Identifier:
  • Photographer's print number: JA_POR_49-19
  • ref247_4ov
  • andrewsj
  • duke:176774
  • japph040120010
  • ark:/87924/r3pc2tk1k
  • dad297a8-2ebd-4768-8405-38359f022e4e
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Sponsor:
Adopted by Lesley Looper