TitlePhotograph, Stemming RoomAbout this objectBlack and white photographic print featuring workers in the hand stemming room in a tobacco factory. Stemming involved removing the centre stem of the tobacco leaf before processing and was done manually until stemming machines came into use in the mid twentieth century which put all the hand stemmers out of work.Object No.2016.43SourceLa Perouse MuseumThemesSocial history
