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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.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity six
- In this activity for grades 7–12, students will read and evaluate primary source stories from the Federal Writer’s Project.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Race in her lifetime
- In this lesson, students will use oral histories to trace the life of Rebecca Clark, an African American who was born in rural Orange County just before the Depression and witnessed the changes in civil rights over the years.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- The Great Depression: Impact over time
- In this lesson students listen to oral history excerpts from Stan Hyatt from Madison County and evaluate how the Great Depression affected one North Carolina family over time.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Tourism and opportunism
- In East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam, page 19
- Cambodia became awash with weapons and burdened by distrust after its civil wars in the 1970s, which were linked to the Vietnam War. After the wars, the growing population experienced high rates of unemployment and poverty as well as trauma. Many young men...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Essays of definition: Lively writing through professional models
- This lesson examines a professional model of a definition paper and asks students to analyze and imitate the structures of using anecdotes and cause and effect to elaborate an essay of definition.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
- By Margaret Ryan.
- Mrs. Cornelia Neal
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.11
- NEAL, MRS. CORNELIA, (colored), age 66, husband 70; two children and four grandchildren living with her. INCOME: They raise some of their food and a little tobacco. HOME CONDITIONS: The house has eight rooms and there are 62 acres of land. they own 2 mules,...
- Mrs. Leacey Royal
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.4
- MRS. LEACEY ROYAL, aged 27, married and has 4 children. Husband is 29. They reside in Reddies River, N.C. INCOME: Husband works on P.W.A. sixteen days a month and gets $24. They have no other income. EXPENSES: They use everything they make for food. Taxes...
- Mrs. B. F. Stayley
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.5
- STAYLEY, MRS. B.F., married and has 14 children but all of them are away from home. Her age is 65; her husband's age is 69. Reside at Reddis [sic] River, N.C. INCOME: Husband makes all his money by farming and by lending money. They have one son who is a school...
- 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...
- Proposed amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.7
- It is declared to be the policy of this Act not to displace the use of cotton or cotton materials and the administrator shall by regulations or by order exempt any work where the application of the provisions of Section 6 may result in the use of other materials...
- Letter of April 1, 1939
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.4
- Box 132, R. #1, Leaksville, N.C., April 1, 1939. Mr. Sherlock Bronson, Box 644, Richmond, Va. Dear Sir: I am kindly writing asking you please not to take the stringing of bags away from Mrs. Jones, our Agent for our community. For two years I have stringing...
- Mrs. Samuel Stayley
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.7
- STAYLEY, MRS. SAMUEL, has five children living at home. She is 83 years old and her husband is 84. They reside at Reddies River, Wilkes Co., N.C. INCOME: The whole family works on the farm and they make just enough to live on. They income from farming is enough...
- 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. 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...
- 10-year-old daughter of Mitch McGahan who is dying of undernourishment
- 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...
- Format: image/photograph
- Mrs. Emma Cleary
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.12
- CLEARY, MRS. EMMA, married; two children; aged 30; husband aged 60; resides in Wilkes County, N.C. Children: William, aged 12 in school. Vassie, aged 8 in school. INCOME: None. HOME CONDITIONS: Own two-room log cabin and forty acres of land. Only five acres...
- Mrs. Ethel Holsbrook
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.8
- HOLSBROOK, MRS. ETHEL, aged 33; married, North Wilkesboro, N.C. Children: Mozelle, aged 16. Estelle, aged 15. Effie, aged 10. Adia, aged 5. INCOME: None. HOME CONDITIONS: The husband has been out of work for over a year and being in poor health it is not probable...
- Mrs. Barbara Wagoner
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.3
- WAGONER, MRS. BARBARA; married; two children; aged 20 years; reside in Wilkes Co., N.C. Children: Jacob, aged one year. Buck, aged 9 — child by husband's first wife. INCOME: About $20.00 per month. Husband is laborer on government park project in this...
- Letter of March 31, 1939
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.3
- Taylorsville, N.C., March 31, 1939. Mr. Sherlock Bronson Richmond, Virginia Dear Mr. Bronson: I am deeply grateful to you and to all others who have made it possible for us to carry on this work, The Stringing of Tobacco Bags, in our county. It is our greatest...
