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Grooming
About this illustration
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
- January 1939
- License
- This illustration copyright ©1939. All Rights Reserved
- Source
- Original image housed by North Carolina State University Libraries Special Collections Research Center
See this illustration in context
- The Great Depression and World War II: Primary sources and readings explore the history of North Carolina and the United States during the Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945). (Page 3.8)
- How do I look to you?: In this lesson, students will evaluate public service posters and a grooming pamphlet to determine if and how propaganda was used to improve the health of children, and define acceptable appearances for young women in the 1930s.
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- Search LEARN NC for Great Depression, grooming, health, history, hygiene, North Carolina, and women.
In the classroom
- See our collection of articles on visual literacy for ideas on using photographs meaningfully in the classroom.
This black and white illustration is the cover of a pamphlet on grooming that was issued by the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service in 1939. Under the title, “Grooming,” sits a fashionable and svelte young woman who is posing with her hands on her hips. Her hair is heavily styled and she wears an elegant dress. On either side of her are boxlike tables with cosmetic and toiletry items on top. The front of these boxlike tables have also been used to contain publication and distribution information for the pamphlet.
