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- catalog abstract ""James F. O'Gorman reads through oral histories, newspaper reports, and the terse factual writing of agricultural diaries to bring to life the risks and rewards of living close to the seasons, at the mercy of rainfall and sunshine. He has collected an array of vintage and newly commissioned photos of the work of growing tobacco, from de facto portraits of anonymous laborers to images of the sheds themselves, with all their ventilating doors open, welcoming the air. In this book, O'Gorman treats both the people and the sheds with the respect and admiration their precarious presence requires."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12356192.
- catalog coverage "Connecticut River Valley Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""James F. O'Gorman reads through oral histories, newspaper reports, and the terse factual writing of agricultural diaries to bring to life the risks and rewards of living close to the seasons, at the mercy of rainfall and sunshine. He has collected an array of vintage and newly commissioned photos of the work of growing tobacco, from de facto portraits of anonymous laborers to images of the sheds themselves, with all their ventilating doors open, welcoming the air. In this book, O'Gorman treats both the people and the sheds with the respect and admiration their precarious presence requires."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [91]-101) and index.".
- catalog description "Tobacco Fields: The Connecticut Intervales -- Tobacco Leaves: Broadleaf and Shade-Grown -- Tobacco People: Yankees, Polanders, and Jamaicans -- Tobacco Sheds: Connecticut Valley Vernacular -- "How Beautiful Is Use" -- The Waning of the Sheds.".
- catalog extent "108 p., [24] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "081223670X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog spatial "Connecticut River Valley Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Connecticut River Valley.".
- catalog subject "633.7/1/0974 21".
- catalog subject "SB273 .O46 2002".
- catalog subject "Tobacco Connecticut River Valley.".
- catalog subject "Tobacco curing Connecticut River Valley.".
- catalog subject "Vernacular architecture Connecticut River Valley.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Tobacco Fields: The Connecticut Intervales -- Tobacco Leaves: Broadleaf and Shade-Grown -- Tobacco People: Yankees, Polanders, and Jamaicans -- Tobacco Sheds: Connecticut Valley Vernacular -- "How Beautiful Is Use" -- The Waning of the Sheds.".
- catalog title "Connecticut valley vernacular : the vanishing landscape and architecture of the New England tobacco fields / James F. O'Gorman ; with photographs by Jack Delano ... [et al.].".
- catalog type "text".