Mrs. Fannie Bowers, North Wilkesboro, N.C.
Rating
Title
Mrs . Fannie Bowers , North Wilkesboro , N.C .
Creator
Stutz, Carleton. Maxfield, Peter A.
Publisher
Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation (Richmond, Va.)
Date
[1939]
Description
Mrs . Fannie Bowers is pictured with a child on her lap . sitting next to her husband in front of their house . There is a pile of tobacco bags on the porch behind them.
Subject (tgm)
Women Children 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
BOWERS , MRS . FANNIE , aged 43 ; widow , North Wilkesboro , N.C . Children : Glenn , aged 27 . Edgar , aged 14 . Raye , aged 13 . Earl , aged 12 . June , aged 7 . INCOME : She receives $12.00 a month from the government for dependent children . HOME CONDITIONS : They rent a three-room house , and forty acres of land , ten acres being tended . Mrs . Bowers is in poor health and states that she should have a doctor but cannot possible afford it . All the money earned on bags and that received from the State is spent on food and clothes . The bag money amounts to about $10.00 a month . Since they have been discontinued temporarily she has had to go in debt in order to buy food . They have no stock at all . The house is kept very neat and clean , but it is very scantily furnished . Mrs . Bowers enjoys doing this work and 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. Fannie Bowers, 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_059.tif
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Format
Photographic Print
Rights Holder
No Known Rights Restrictions
Resource Type
Image
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