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4-H Club family in their garden: In this black and white photograph, three members of the Sauls family, two older girls dressed in skirts and a young boy in overalls, are seen planting a field in Wake County, North Carolina. The boy is shown making holes in the soil with a hoe. One of the...; Format: image/article

Benjamin Wadsworth on the duties of children to their parents: In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.10; Excerpt from a book by an eighteenth-century Puritan minister about expectations for children's behavior and respect for their parents. Includes historical commentary.; Format: book; Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

Britt family of Wake County sitting in their living room: In this black and white photo, the Britts, a family of five, and a furry white cat are sitting pleasantly in a sunny room filled with plants. “Mother” is writing in a book at a desk located in the corner of the room. She is facing the interior...; Format: image/photograph

Cherokee women: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.8; Before the arrival of Europeans in North America, women enjoyed a major role in the family life, economy, and government of the Cherokee Indians. Cherokee society was organized according to a matrilineal kinship system, and women were the heads of households. Women also did most of the farming and had a voice in government.; Format: article; By Theda Perdue.

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.; Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Families in colonial North Carolina: In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.7; In colonial families, the father had absolute authority over his family, and wives and children were expected to do as they were told. And everyone, even young children, worked to sustain the family.; Format: article; By L. Maren Wood.

Family at Civil War encampment: Family at an encampment of the 31st Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War in Washington, D.C., near Fort Slocum.; Format: image/photograph

Family on Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina: Five generations of an African American family on Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina.; Format: image/photograph

Family sitting at table, eating dinner and drinking milk: In this black and white photograph, a family is seated at a round wooden dining table eating a meal. The family consists of a mother, father, two daughters, a son, and an older man who is probably the grandfather. Both of the men wear suits. The mother wears...; Format: image/photograph

Home is where the hearth is: Using photographs to discuss traditional family roles: In this lesson students will examine pictures of hearths (fireplaces), which used to be the cornerstone of the home and family life. These images, from the Built Heritage Collection at North Carolina State University, will help students use observation skills and inference to draw conclusions about the culture of family life at various points throughout the history of North Carolina and the United States.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Loretta Wilson.

Life in the mill villages: In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.3; By 1900, more than nine-tenths of textile workers lived in villages owned by the companies that employed them. Mill villages included stores, churches, and schools, but workers found ways to avoid too much dependence on their employers.; Format: article; By James Leloudis and Kathryn Walbert.

Life on the land: Voices: In North Carolina in the New South, page 1.4; Excerpts of oral history interviews with men and women who grew up on farms in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century North Carolina.; Format: interview; Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

Mr. and Mrs. Vestal of Chatham County speaking in a kitchen: This is a black and white photo of the Vestals, an older man and woman, in their Chatham County kitchen. They are dressed in 1940s attire, but their stove is very old. The woman has her hand on the handle of a coffee pot. She is wearing a floral printed long...; Format: image/article

Mrs. Daisy Stamper: A large family, including several children, is pictured in front of a one-room house. A box of tobacco bags is visible in the photograph, as is the family laundry, drying on the line.; Format: image/photograph

Mrs. Emma Cleary, Wilkes County, N.C.: The Cleary family is pictured standing in front of a stone wall. All of the family members hold tobacco bags.; Format: image/photograph

Mrs. Emma Mitchell, Reidsville, N.C.: Mrs. Emma Mitchell and her family are pictured standing on the front porch of their house.; Format: image/photograph

Mrs. Ethel Holsbrook, North Wilkesboro, N.C.: Mrs. Ethel Holsbrook and four children are pictured sitting on the front steps of their home. Mrs. Holsbrook is holding a bundle of tobacco bags, and there are more visible at her feet.; Format: image/photograph

Mrs. Eugene Puckett of Clayton and family eating a meal: In this black and white photograph a family of five is seating around a small table in the kitchen eating a meal. Mr. and Mrs. Puckett sit across from each other. He has his hair slicked back and wears overalls. Although Mrs. Puckett sits with her back to...; Format: image/lesson plan

Mrs. Flossie Johnson, Reidsville, N.C.: The Johnson family is pictured standing in front of their house.; Format: image/photograph

Mrs. Gertrude Maynard, Reidsville, N.C.: Mrs. Gertrude Maynard and her family are pictured in one of the bedrooms in their house.; Format: image/photograph

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