R. M. Barker Tobacco Company		R. M. Barker Tobacco Company
Both images of the same scene, but from opposite directions, along 11th, between Clay and Polk

All of the pictures below are circa 1948, and are of the R. M. Barker Tobacco Co. in Carrollton.  If you can identify any of the folks in the images, please drop us an email, by clicking here.

R. M. Barker Tobacco Company	Mr. R. M. Barker	Group of Men Sitting Around

 

Office workers at the Re-dryer		Workers with loose hands of tobacco

 

Man outside the scale room	Two views of the scale

    

Taking tobacco off basket to be replaced on a stick	Hands of tobacco on dollies	Stick with tobacco hands and worker	Putting tobacco in steam room before conveyor belt

 

Side of the steam room	Man outside the steam room

 

Taking tobacco out of the steam press

 

Coopers working on hogsheads		Filling the hogsheads

 

Pressing hogsheads	Stacking sealed hogsheads	Dragging a dolly of tobacco	Men showing tobacco hands

 

Loading tobacco palettes on sleds	Unloading tobacco with a winch	Lifting tobacco palette with a forklift

Read about M. I Barker, an earlier proprietor of the tobacco warehouse, here. (pdf -low quality, sorry, best available)

UK has restored a portion of a Richland Farm film of tobacco planting. Makes our back sore just watching it. We also note they says they have 121 such films of various Carroll doings.