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Mrs. Samuel Stayley, Reddies River, Wilkes Co., N.C.
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Carleton Stutz and Peter A. Maxfield
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- Original image housed by UNC Libraries
About this image
- Format: Photograph
- Date created: 1939
- Location: Reddies River, Wilkes County, North Carolina
- File: JPEG (77 KB)
- Sizes available: 1000×597 | 500×299
See this photograph in context
- 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 2.7)
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity three: In this activity for grades 7–12, students will evaluate primary source photographs from the Tobacco Bag Stringing collection.
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The Stayley family is shown in the kitchen of their home. The table is set and they look to have just finished a meal. The walls are covered with pages from magazines or newspapers, and there are pots and canned goods in view.