Gord Schnekenburger - Burley Tobacco Harvest
https://heritagecollections.elgin.ca/link/archives186068
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Harley Lashbrook Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- September 9, 1976
- Accession Number
- 2016-09
- Storage Location
- R13 S3 Sh6 B2 119
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Harley Lashbrook Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2016-09
- Storage Room
- Archives Storage Rm. 110
- Storage Location
- R13 S3 Sh6 B2 119
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- September 9, 1976
- Physical Description
- 3 photographs : b&w negative ; 5.7 x 5.7 cm
- Scope and Content
- Three black-and-white negative photographs featuring Gord Schnekenburger showing his burley tobacco harvest, on September 9, 1976.
- R13 S3 Sh6 B2 119a was published in the West Lorne Sun on September 9, 1976, with the caption: "Gord Schnekenburger recently helped harvest burley tobacco on the family farm at Churchville. Here he is seen pushing a spike through the stem of the plant so it will hang on the tobacco slat with four other plants for air drying. His father, Bob is one of a few burley growers left in Aldborough and is thought to have had the second largest crop - about five acres."
- Name Access
- Rodney (Ont.)
- Rodney Mercury
- West Lorne Sun
- West Lorne (Ont.)
- Subject Access
- Tobacco
- Tobacco farming
Images
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