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Title	Mrs. Pearl McBride, North Wilkesboro, N.C.
Creator	Stutz, Carleton. Maxfield, Peter A.
Publisher	Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation (Richmond, Va.)
Date	[1939]
Description	Mrs. Pearl McBride is pictured seated in front of her house with a bundle of tobacco bags on her lap and her two daughters standing behind her.
Subject (tgm)	Women Houses
Subject Topical	Tobacco industry--United States Home labor
Subject Name	Stutz, Carleton. Maxfield, Peter A. Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation (Richmond, Va.)
Subject Geographic	North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Wilkes County (N.C.)
Title Note	Title supplied by repository.
Form General	Photographs.
Report Text	MCBRIDE, MRS. PEARL, aged 43, widow, North Wilkesboro, N.C. Children: Belna, aged 15. Murrell, aged 13. Elmore, aged 10. Diana, aged 8. Rosalie, aged 17. She also takes care of her aged nother-in-law [sic]. INCOME: She receives $12 per month from the Government for her dependent children. HOME CONDITIONS: They own a three room home but have to rent the land consisting of 10 acres, one third of its produce being given the owner as rent. The house is fairly well furnished and kept in a very neat order. Bag money, which amounts to about $6 a month all goes for buying food and clothes. She states that she is in too poor health to be able to do any other work than bags since she is confined to her home most of the time. She also states that she does not know what they will do if the bags are taken away.
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. Pearl McBride, North Wilkesboro, 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_078.tif
path	\ncc\tbs\
Format	Photographic Print
Rights Holder	Public domain

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