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Rural electrification: Girl at sewing machine

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U.S. Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information.

Date created
1944
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Source
Original image housed by Library of Congress

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  • The Great Depression and World War II: Primary sources and readings explore the history of North Carolina and the United States during the Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945). (Page 2.6)
  • The Great Depression and World War II: Primary sources and readings explore the history of North Carolina and the United States during the Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945). (Page 2.6)

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Original caption: “Portrait of America. No. 36. Rural Electrification in the U.S. Electric sewing machines, such as this one on a U.S. farm, run by power from a farmers’ cooperative rural electrification project, remove the strain from much labor. This girl now mends clothes in a fraction of the time required before electricity was available.”