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Mrs. Ethel Holsbrook, North Wilkesboro, 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: North Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, North Carolina
- File: JPEG (112 KB)
- Sizes available: 1000×600 | 500×300
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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 2.8)
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Mrs. Ethel Holsbrook and four children are pictured sitting on the front steps of their home. Mrs. Holsbrook is holding a bundle of tobacco bags, and there are more visible at her feet.