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A tobacco auction in Durham, North Carolina, November 1939 • Farmers bringing their tobacco to a warehouse in trailers, on top of their cars and even inside their cars for the auction • Farmers must often wait overnight before their tobacco is sold at auction. They sleep most anywhere. This is the interior of the office in the warehouse at about four o'clock in the morning. • Inside the warehouse, during the auction • Lunch stand and tobacco inside the entrance to the warehouse at the end of the auction