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| View Original: | Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco barn sign in Petersburg, West Virginia LCCN2015634484.tif.tiff (8688x5792) | |||
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| Keywords: Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco barn sign in Petersburg, West Virginia LCCN2015634484.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 055 ; Mail Pouch Barns as they were often called were barns with one or more sides painted from 1890 to 1992 with an advertisement for the West Virginia Mail Pouch chewing tobacco company based in Wheeling West Virginia At the height of the program in the early 1960s there were about 20 000 Mail Pouch barns spread across 22 states mostly in the American South and Mid-South ; Forms part of West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Credit line West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015634484 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/34400/34468a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 34468 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 34468 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive West Virginia Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith | ||||