Old Tobacco Barn Poster

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OLD TOBACCO BARN is a textured, vintage photograph by Carla Parris.

This abandoned tobacco barn was photographed on a country road on the outskirts of Havana, Florida, near Tallahassee.

Barns such as this were used when shade tobacco was grown in northwest Florida. Gadsden County was the hub of this activity, with 6,000 acres where this lucrative crop was grown.

After being grown under slats or cheesecloth (hence the name shade tobacco), the premium leaves of shade tobacco plants were cured and dried in these barns.

According to my father, who actually worked in these barns as a child, assisting in the family's farming business, the leaves came into the barns on mule drawn carts. There was a long table running the length of the barn where there were about 30 stations where workers, generally women, would string the leaves, using a large needle which would be inserted into the stems of the leaves. The stringers would hand sew 32 leaves together and...

My love of photography grew out of capturing images from my travels, so photographs of beautiful and interesting places comprise a large portion of my portfolio. I am a Southern girl, and love the beauty that is in my back yard, so there are also lots of images from close to home. These include images of our beautiful Gulf Coast beaches, which I visit any time I can! I also enjoy capturing images of interesting flora and fauna, and wildlife images I am able to capture with my newest telephoto lens! I am a painter, as well as a photographer, and offer galleries of paintings and mixed media pieces. My interest in traditional art has spilled over to my post processing of photographs, and in addition to images with minimal post...

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