Transcription on the back of the photograph reads: "Hall in Pinlan - Rt. 1 Sfd. - 1st sale of year 2.6A of tobacco - good toc & good price. Unloading tobacco - tob belongs to Walter Dickens - other 3 working in warehouse. Floyd Hall, Frank Foushee, Reuben Hickman, Gilmen Kennedy, Walter Dinkens." Image published in The Sanford Herald's September 12, 1949 issue on page one.