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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 six children are pictured sitting inside of their house next to an open cabinet filled with jars. There are pages from the Southern Agriculturist and the Southern Planter magazines on the walls. |
| Subject (tgm) | Women
Children
Infants
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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_031a.tif |
| path | \ncc\tbs\ |
| Format | Photographic Print |
| Rights Holder | Public domain |
