Mrs. Rudy Shepard, Reddies River, N.C.
Rating
Title
Mrs . Rudy Shepard , Reddies River , N.C .
Creator
Stutz, Carleton. Maxfield, Peter A.
Publisher
Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation (Richmond, Va.)
Date
[1939]
Description
Mrs . Rudy Shepard is pictured sitting inside of her house . There are pages from magazines on the wall .
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
Reddies River (N.C.) Wilkes County (N.C.)
Title Note
Title supplied by repository.
Form General
Photographs .
Report Text
MRS . RUDY SHEPARD , 64 , married and has 8 children but only one of them lives with her. Husband is 68 . Lives at Reddis [sic] River , N.C . INCOME : Husband owns small store and is an agent for issuing bags to stringers . He makes enough from the store to live on. His bag agency doubles his income from the store . EXPENSES : They get all their food from the store , therefore , they have very few expenses . HOME CONDITIONS : They own a house with 3 rooms and 65 acres of land . Husband has high blood pressure and cannot work on the farm . His wife is not able to work either . They own one cow , a horse , about a dozen chickens and a hog . House is in bad shape and has no conveniences . She can string about 500 bags a day . This is the only work of any kind that she can do . The money she makes from this keeps them from going in debt . She does not feel contented unless she can do this 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. Rudy Shepard, Reddies River, N.C. 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_033.tif
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Format
Photographic Print
Rights Holder
No Known Rights Restrictions
Resource Type
Image
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