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| Title | Mrs. Leacey Royal, Reddies River, N.C. |
| Creator | Stutz, Carleton.
Maxfield, Peter A.
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| Publisher | Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation (Richmond, Va.)
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| Date | [1939] |
| Description | Mrs. Leacey Royal and three children are pictured standing outside of their house. |
| Subject (tgm) | Women
Children
Houses
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| Subject Topical | Tobacco industry--United States
Home labor
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| Subject Name | Stutz, Carleton.
Maxfield, Peter A.
Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation (Richmond, Va.)
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| Subject Geographic | Reddies River (N.C.)
Wilkes County (N.C.)
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| Title Note | Title supplied by repository. |
| Form General | Photographs. |
| Report Text | MRS. LEACEY ROYAL, aged 27, married and has 4 children. Husband is 29. They reside in Reddies River, N.C.
INCOME: Husband works on P.W.A. sixteen days a month and gets $24. They have no other income.
EXPENSES: They use everything they make for food. Taxes are $2.
HOME CONDITIONS: House has 2 rooms and there are 35 acres of land. He owns a cow and 2 steers. The house is like all the rest in this section. They own a sewing machine and a new stove. She has been stringing bags for about 5 years and makes about $7.50 a month. This work sometimes hurts her eyes but she likes to make this money which she needs very much. |
| 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. Leacey Royal, 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_031.tif |
| path | \ncc\tbs\ |
| Format | Photographic Print |
| Rights Holder | Public domain |
