Caption: A tobacco auction from 1959, Credit: WHTJ Charlottesville
Image by: WHTJ Charlottesville 
A tobacco auction from 1959 

Edward Stephenson

From: Mara Zepeda
Length: 04:17

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A third-generation tobacco auctioneer reflects on the end of live auctioneering in Durham, North Carolina. Co-produced by Kate Waters and Mara Zepeda. Read the full description.

Tobacco_auction1959_use_small This story was originally produced at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies Summer Audio Institute in 2005.

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This story was originally produced at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies Summer Audio Institute in 2005.