Picture No | 10694136 |
Date | 1915 |
Description | Women working on a tobacco farm, Norfolk, WW1 |
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Women workers gathering the harvest on the tobacco farm at Methwold, Norfolk in 1915. Picture 1 shows them tying and looping tobacco to be placed on stays, 2 shows them collecting tobacco to be taken to the barn, 3, 'the advantages of untrammelled limbs when mounting a cart', alluding to the breeches worn, 4, bringing the stays to gather the tobacco and 5, Grown and smoked in Methwold, a girl enjoys a cigarette after dinner.
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Source | Photographs in The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News, 25 September 1915 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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