Unloading tobacco from trailer into baskets according to the grade, the night before auction sale in warehouse, Durham, North Carolina
November 1939
Artist, American, 1910 - 1990

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 18.5 × 24.3 cm (7 5/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
sheet: 20.6 × 25.4 cm (8 1/8 × 10 in.) -
Accession
2023.30.164
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA); Paine Webber & Co., New York, 15 September 1995; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, top right in graphite: 800-H539; upper center: 142; upper center FSA stamp in black ink; by unknown hand, center in graphite inverted: 52809-D; lower center: Post; lower center printed in black ink inverted: Unloading tobacco from trailer into baskets according to the grade, the night before auction sale. / in warehouse. Durham, North Carolina Nov. 1939; lower right FSA credit stamp in black ink; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: PW7143