Mrs. Kuhn, North Wilkesboro, N.C.

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Photograph by Carleton Stutz and Peter A. Maxfield.

Date created: 1939
Location: North Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, North Carolina
License: This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
Source: Original image housed by UNC Libraries

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Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression: Images and text from a report in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documenting tobacco bag stringing work in North Carolina and Virginia in 1939. (Page 2.2)

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Mrs. Kuhn, North Wilkesboro, N.C., pictured seated while stringing bags in the interior of her house. Her husband’s wheelchair is visible in the background.

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