Mrs. Kate Seay, Richmond, Va.
Rating
Title
Mrs . Kate Seay , Richmond , Va .
Creator
Stutz, Carleton. Maxfield, Peter A.
Publisher
Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation (Richmond, Va.)
Date
[1939]
Description
Mrs . Kate Seay is pictured seated at a table in one of her rented rooms , stringing tobacco bags .
Subject (tgm)
Women
Subject Topical
Tobacco industry--United States. Home labor.
Subject Name
Stutz, Carleton. Maxfield, Peter A. Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation (Richmond, Va.)
Subject Geographic
Richmond (Va.)
Title Note
Title supplied by repository.
Form General
Photographs .
Report Text
SEAY , MRS . KATE ; aged 68 , married ; her husband is 72 ; lives at 1100 N . 23rd Street , Richmond , Virginia ; no children . INCOME : $30.00 per month pension which Mr . Seay receives from Virginia Electric and Power Company . HOME CONDITIONS : They rent three rooms at $12.00 per month . She has tried to work for other people on the outside but finds she is too weak and sickly to do it . She is more or less confined to her rooms and finds that stringing bags not only earns her around $6.00 a month but it keeps her mind occupied and she enjoys doing it . Her house is kept spotlessly clean and fairly well furnished . Bag stringing does not interfere with her housekeeping . She has been doing this work for fie years . She spends $10.00 a month on groceries , $1.00 a month for electricity and about $2.00 a month for gas . Her insurance amounts to $7.50 per month and she uses all of the money that she gets from bag stringing to pay this insurance . She states that the money earned from this work is absolutely necessary and that they will have to receive other relief as they are unable to work .
Physical Description of Original
6 cm H x 11 cm W; 2-1/3" H x 4-1/3" W
Digital Collection
Tobacco Bag Stringing
Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. North Carolina Collection.
Host
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Local Identifier
VC331.76 S93s
Citation
Mrs. Kate Seay, Richmond, Va. In Tobacco Bag Stringing Operations in North Carolina and Virginia, 1939. North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
filename
VC331.76_S93s_123.tif
path
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Format
Photographic Print
Rights Holder
No Known Rights Restrictions
Resource Type
Image
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