The Louisiana Digital Library has, among countless other things, a collection of superb photos of Perique production. They're all copyrighted, so I'll just give a link to the advanced search.
http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/search.php
When you reach that page, enter
Guglielmo Perique
in the box labeled, "All of the words" and click the search button. When you view the pics, be sure to read the caption (further down the page) on at least one of them.
What the heck. Here's my favorite, showing women "airing" the leaf by draping it all over their bodies.
There's one other fine photo from another series (that won't show up in the above search), showing stripping onto huge swaths of burlap:
http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/LHP&CISOPTR=5232&CISOBOX=1&REC=19
And then, for all you southerners, there's the drawing of General US Grant as a tobacco grub, from the 1873 "Missing Links" Carnival.
http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/c...er&DMTEXT= tobacco&REC=8&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0
Thanks to FmGrowit for the tip on the LDL.
Bob
http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/search.php
When you reach that page, enter
Guglielmo Perique
in the box labeled, "All of the words" and click the search button. When you view the pics, be sure to read the caption (further down the page) on at least one of them.
What the heck. Here's my favorite, showing women "airing" the leaf by draping it all over their bodies.
There's one other fine photo from another series (that won't show up in the above search), showing stripping onto huge swaths of burlap:
http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/LHP&CISOPTR=5232&CISOBOX=1&REC=19
And then, for all you southerners, there's the drawing of General US Grant as a tobacco grub, from the 1873 "Missing Links" Carnival.
http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/c...er&DMTEXT= tobacco&REC=8&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0
Thanks to FmGrowit for the tip on the LDL.
Bob
