13169_10683_sassafras
Subjects
1950s
B&W
Kentucky: A man walks through a forest, he tills the ground with a ho and collects sassafras and herbs that he places in a burlap sack. He sifts through the ground with his hands and puts herbs in the sack. He walks into a shack where his wife stands with a scarf over her hair, he dumps the herbs into a bowl and the woman covers them with water. The man cleans the herbs. They both sift through the herbs and place them in a paper bag. Exterior of a building with a Coca-Cola billboard. A pharmacist wearing a bow tie walks with the old man into a pharmacy. The pharmacist pours the herbs onto a scale