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Mrs. W. H. Bryant: In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.6; MRS. W. H. BRYANT, Wilkes County, N.C., has 9 children, one of whom is married and also has 1 child and lives with her. INCOME: Husband works fairly steadily at the furniture factory for $10 to $15 a week. Only other income is $2.50 a week for stringing bags...

Mrs. Emma Mitchell: In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.9; MITCHELL, MRS. EMMA, (colored), aged 44; husband 58; have ten children, all of whom live with them at Reidsville, N.C. INCOME: Their income depends on farming and bag stringing. They raise practically all their food and only have to buy about $8.00 worth a...

Mrs. Eugenia Allen: In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.10; ALLEN, MRS. EUGENIA, (colored); married and has three children and four grandchildren living with her; aged 51; husband aged 59. Reside at Reidsville, N.C. INCOME: They raise corn and tobacco to sell, and all the food they need. Taxes are about $35.00 a year...

4-H and Home Demonstration during the Great Depression: During the first few years of the Great Depression, North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service agents focused on emergency relief for adult farmers rather than the 4-H program. By 1933 club enrollment fell to its lowest levels since 1925, and the summer...; Format: article; By Amy Manor.

Seated woman selling fruit: A seated woman sells three types of fruit — oranges, pineapples, and a small unidentified red fruit. She has a purple cloth over her head, most likely to keep the sun off of her face. Saquisilí, Ecuador is famous for its huge market where you can find...; Format: image/photograph

Livestock market in Riobamba, Ecuador: In the foreground, several people are leading young black pigs on short leashes. In the background, dozens of people mill around a pen and covered stall. Riobamba has a long and storied history. Its convenient location in the highlands between the coast and...; Format: image/photograph

Purchasing a guinea pig in Saquisili, Ecuador: A woman purchases a white guinea pig from a vendor in an open-air market. The vendor, wearing a black fedora with a red and white feather, is reaching into a hand-woven basket. Saquisilí has one of the largest daily markets in Ecuador. Everything from agricultural...; Format: image/photograph

Roasted guinea pig in Saquisili, Ecuador: A roasted guinea pig has been placed in a white bowl on top of a metal pail. Saquisilí has one of the largest daily markets in Ecuador. Everything from agricultural products to livestock to handcrafted goods can be found in Saquisilí. The active market makes...; Format: image/photograph

Vietnam Mekong Delta tour: The process of growing, harvesting rice: This was recorded as part of a multi-day Mekong Delta tour that started in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) and finished in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It is a unique experience to cross the border over water rather than overland. We were amongst the first groups...; Format: audio

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Wilson County winners feeding pigs: On July 30, 1940, Levi Simmons, Minshew Club member in Wilson County was granted a second A and T College Club Scholarship for achievement in club work. His second project was raising 2 pigs. This black and white photograph shows Levi Simmons feeding his pigs...; Format: image/photograph

E. Whitley feeding pigs: E. Whitley, a farmer of Stanly County, North Carolina is seen in this Depression era black and white photograph feeding his pigs. He is standing in his farmyard next to a trough from which his sow and her 11 piglets are eating. Wearing a long sleeved shirt...; Format: image/photograph

A log house in the woods of antebellum North Carolina: Two people stand talking in front of a log cabin surrounded by pine trees. Pigs roam freely in the yard where two children are playing. A pelt hangs on the wall of the cabin. Another person, possibly a slave, is working in the woods nearby.; Format: image/illustration

Yes - We want more club work: A black and white poster of a four leaf clover with the words "Yes - we want more club work" underneath. Inside the four leaf clover there are four different pictures of young people doing activities related to the one of the four words in each of the leaves...; Format: image/article

The Columbian Exchange at a glance: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 5.2; Countless animals, plants, and microorganisms crossed the Atlantic Ocean with European explorers and colonists in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This chart lists some of the organisms that had the greatest impact on human society worldwide.; Format: article

The De Soto expedition: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 3.3; Hernando De Soto’s expedition through the southeastern United States in 1539–43 was one of the earliest of the early contacts between Europeans and native peoples. While historical documents tell the story of do Soto's journey, advances in both history and archaeology have enabled researchers to reconstruct the de Soto route.; Format: article

Special celebrations: Although the first Christmas parties for estate workers were held in the Banquet hall of Biltmore house, they later moved to the Dairy, most likely because of the ever-expanding numbers of employees required for the growing operations. Sarah Lanning surmised...; Format: article; By Sue Clark McKendree.

Conclusion: Children born or raised at the farm and dairy village have wonderful memories of growing up on Biltmore Estate. For Mildred Buchanan, living here “was fun. I guess you felt a little but more secure than you would out in the town....You just wasn’t...; Format: article; By Sue Clark McKendree.

John White searches for the colonists: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 4.6; In this excerpt from the report of his voyage, John White explains how he and the crew of two ships searched for the lost colonists on Roanoke Island but could not find them.; Format: article

Who owns the land?: In Colonial North Carolina, page 3.3; Europeans and American Indians had very different ideas about what it meant to "own" land, and these differences led to many of the conflicts between the two cultures in America.; Format: article; By David Walbert.

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