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- Barning the tobacco
- Two men "barning" tobacco, packing it for storage in a barn.
- Format: image/photograph
- The Bonsack machine and labor unrest
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.7
- When the Duke tobacco company adopted the Bonsack machine for rolling cigarettes, workers who had rolled cigarettes by hand were thrown out of work, and their replacements made less money.
- Format: article
- Georgia rice field workers
- 19th-century image of four Georgia rice field workers.
- Format: image/photograph
- Harvesting tobacco
- Men work to harvest tobacco by hand. A mule pulls a wagon or cart.
- Format: image/photograph
- The Haymarket Riot
- Format: image/illustration
- The Homestead Strike
- The Carnegie Steel Works, showing the shield used by the strikers when firing the cannon and watching the Pinkerton men during the Homestead strike.
- Format: image/illustration
- Industrialization in North Carolina
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 2.3
- Industrialization needed five things -- capital, labor, raw materials, markets, and transportation -- and in the 1870s, North Carolina had all of them. This article explains the process of industrialization in North Carolina, with maps of factory and railroad growth.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The Knights of Labor
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.10
- Excerpt from the 1878 Platform of the Knights of Labor, an early labor union. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: declaration
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- 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.
- Making yarn in a cotton mill
- A worker at White Oak Mills in Greensboro, North Carolina, makes yarn.
- Format: image/photograph
- Mill village and factory: Voices
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 3.5
- Excerpts of oral history interviews with men and women who lived in mill villages and worked in textile mills in the early twentieth century.
- Format: interview
- Mrs. Alice Johnson, Wilkes County, N.C.
- Mrs. Alice Johnson is pictured sitting on a trunk in the interior of her home stringing tobacco bags. Two children are shown in the photograph.
- Format: image/photograph
- Mrs. B.F. Stayley, Reddies River, N.C.
- Mrs. B.F. Stayley is pictured in the interior of her home, sitting next to an ornate wooden dresser. Part of Mrs. Stayley's kitchen is visible in the background.
- Format: image/photograph
- Mrs. Barbara Wagoner, Wilkes County, N.C.
- Mrs. Barbara Wagoner is pictured sitting in a chair outside of her house with a baby in her lap. Several piles of tobacco bags are next to her on the ground.
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- Mrs. Cora Graves, Reidsville, N.C.
- Mrs. Cora Graves and her family are pictured standing on the front porch of their house. There are two dogs visible in the photo.
- Format: image/photograph
- Mrs. Cora Graves, Reidsville, N.C.
- Mrs. Cora Graves and another woman are pictured seated in a bedroom, stringing tobacco bags.
- Format: image/photograph
- Mrs. Cornelia Neal
- Mrs. Cornelia Neal and two other women are pictured seated on a bed, stringing tobacco bags. There is a stove visible in the foreground.
- Format: image/photograph
- 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 is pictured inside of her house, seated next to her daughter, stringing tobacco bags.
- Format: image/photograph
