Mrs. Emma Cleary, Wilkes County, N.C.

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Carleton Stutz and Peter A. Maxfield

Date created: 1939
Location: 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 2.12)

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The Cleary family is pictured standing in front of a stone wall. All of the family members hold tobacco bags.

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