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10-year-old daughter of Mitch McGahan who is dying of undernourishment
About this photograph
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.
- Date created
- 1923
- Location
- North Carolina
- License
- Copyright unknown.
- Source
- Original image housed by North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections Research Center
See this photograph in context
- Children and families in North Carolina: In this lesson plan, elementary students will analyze photographs of children from North Carolina provided by the Green ‘N’ Growing collection from the Special Collections Research Center at North Carolina State University. They will investigate how individuals and families are similar and different, and to begin to acquire an understanding of change over time.
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Learn more
- Search LEARN NC for Green 'N' Growing, history, laundry, malnutrition, North Carolina, and poverty.
In the classroom
- See our collection of articles on visual literacy for ideas on using photographs meaningfully in the classroom.
In this black and white photograph, a woman and a little girl stand holding hands in front of a line of laundry. They seem to be standing inside of a livestock pen: the ground is muddy and there is a crudely-built fence that is just in front of the laundry line.
