Pine straw mattress factory
About this photograph
This photograph is part of the online exhibit, "Works Projects in North Carolina, 1933-1941" and is published courtesy of the North Carolina State Archives.
- Date created
- January 1934
- Location
- Wilmington, North Carolina
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2006. All Rights Reserved
- Source
- Original image housed by North Carolina State Archives
See this photograph in context
- 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 1.1)
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- Search LEARN NC for 20th century, Civil Works Service, Great Depression, history, mattresses, New Hanover County, North Carolina, women, and Works Progress Administration.
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Women stuff mattresses with pine straw in a factory in Wilmington, North Carolina in January, 1934. In an adjacent room, two women sit in front of a large mound of pine straw and sort it into bunches. This work was a project of the Civilian Works Service.
