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- Copyright guidelines for publishing
- In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 3.1
- When you publish a work on the web, one of the following three cases must apply: You must have created the work; You must have permission from the creator or copyright holder; or The work must be free of copyright. (By...
- Format: article
- 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...
- Work in Colonial America: Blacksmithing
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.16
- A reenactor demonstrates the work of a colonial blacksmith and explains his role in the community.
- Format: video
- Carpentry skills
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 18
- Carpenters in highland villages generally work with hand tools, using no electricity. Metal parts, generally now imported from the cities, are either forged in the village or bought pre-made from blacksmiths in larger towns. The man shown here is using a large...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Women working
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 21
- The bright green rice plants in the field are still young and unripe. Note, again, the power lines running in the background.
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- 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...
- Letter of April 7, 1939
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.5
- MORSE BAG COMPANY East Bend, North Carolina. April 7, 1939. Mr. Sherlock Bronson, Richmond, Virginia. Dear Sir: In compliance with your request of March 28th, I am glad to give you an idea of my experience in working with tobacco bags. My mother and father,...
- 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)
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity two
- In this lesson, students will read and evaluate primary source letters from the Great Depression about the effects of the Fair Labor Standards Act on North Carolina's tobacco bag stringers.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Protection from the sun
- In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 6
- Rural women, men, and children throughout Southeast Asia commonly weave their own hats, sleeping mats, and baskets from a variety of palm leaf, bamboo, and rattan fibers. Mountain groups or highlanders are less involved in the national cash economy (often...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Domestic work in the nineteenth century
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.11
- Videos of junior reenactors at Duke Homestead State Historic Site in Durham, North Carolina, show cooking indoors and outdoors and the work involved in doing laundry by hand.
- Format: video
- 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)
- Peace returns to the earth
- In The Ramayana, page 7.15
- Women pick fruit in a fertile garden, as painted on a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Four women move contentedly around a lush landscape with colorful flowers and ripe fruit growing around boulders. A woman on the right reaches over a boulder to pick...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- Mrs. Kuhn
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.2
- MRS. KUHN, North Wilkesboro, N.C., married and has one child, who is also married. She is 68 years old and her husband is in his sixties; crippled. INCOME: Husband works in furniture factory about six months out of a year at thirty cents an hour. Only other...
- 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...
- Bones and muscles
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 3.4
- In this lesson for grade seven, students draw bones inside an outline of a human body, and then conduct experiments exploring how muscles work.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
- By John Boyd.Adapted by Mitzi Talbert.
- Obtaining permission for copyrighted materials
- In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 3.5
- If your desired use of a copyrighted work does not fall under fair use and the work is not licensed for public use, you must ask permission before using it. Be sure to think through carefully what...
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Persuasive writing: The importance of work permits
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade eight, page 1.5
- In this lesson, students will read about child labor laws and work permits, and will write a persuasive paper based on what they've learned.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Andrea Fedon, Gail Frank, and Cindy Neininger.
- Collaging symmetry
- Students will create a symmetrical artwork with construction paper, glue, and yarn. This lesson will allow students to use critical thinking to create an original work. They should learn that there is more than one solution to a creative problem.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education)
- By Marion McClure.
- Excerpt from Fannie Dorum slave narrative
- Fannie Dorum was born into slavery in Franlin, North Carolina. In this brief excerpt, she describes the work she did as a slave.
- Format: book
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