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Eliza Drake in a garden
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Provided by the Green 'N' Growing Collection (The History of Home Demonstration and 4-H Youth Development in North Carolina), Special Collections, North Carolina State University Libraries.
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- Original image housed by North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections Research Center
About this image
- Format: Photograph
- Date created: c. 1940
- Location: Red Springs, North Carolina
- File: JPEG (25 KB)
- Size: 220×384
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This black and white photograph, taken in Red Springs, North Carolina in the 1940s, shows Eliza Blake, an African American woman, and two children. They are in their garden doing home demonstration work. The garden is in the foreground of the image. Eliza Blake and the two children are seen walking in the background of the picture behind the fenced-in garden. An unpainted wall of a clapboard house can be seen on the left side of the picture. All three individuals in the image are wearing dresses and Eliza Blake has her hair tied up in a scarf.