Mrs. Phoebe Wood, Wilkes County, N.C.
Rating
Title
Mrs . Phoebe Wood , Wilkes County , N.C .
Creator
Stutz, Carleton. Maxfield, Peter A.
Publisher
Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation (Richmond, Va.)
Date
[1939]
Description
Mrs . Phoebe Wood and three children are pictured on the front porch of their two-room house . There appears to be a bunch of tobacco bags next to them.
Subject (tgm)
Women Children Families Houses
Subject Topical
Tobacco industry--United States. Home labor.
Subject Name
Stutz, Carleton. Maxfield, Peter A. Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation (Richmond, Va.)
Subject Geographic
Wilkes County (N.C.)
Title Note
Title supplied by repository.
Form General
Photographs .
Report Text
WOOD , MRS . PHOEBE ; aged 38 ; married , seven children ; resides in Wilkes County , N.C . Children : Dorothy , aged 16 . Henry , aged 14 . Rosalie , aged 12 . Ruth , aged 10 . DeLoss , aged 7 . Roger , aged 6 . Lawrence , aged 2 . INCOME : Husband works on PWA or WPA road work relief . Earns $12.80 every two weeks . Only two weeks are working in a month . HOME CONDITIONS : Own a two-room shack and ten acres of land , only three acres being suitable for cultivation . Raise a small crop of corn , potatoes , cane , peas , and beans . Have two cows and eight chickens . Rooms very neatly kept and clean but just a loosely constructed shack not high enough for a man to stand up in. Newspapers kept the air form coming in between the wallboards . Husband has very bad stomach trouble , sometimes falling out on the job . They cannot afford the services of a doctor . Bag money would enable him to buy medicine for this trouble , she says . She loves bag stringing and earns about $12.00 a month at it . This money is absolutely necessary in order they exist . She makes the children's clothes from material bought with bag money . She finds time to help on the farm , do housework and still work on the bags .
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. Phoebe Wood, Wilkes County, 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_068.tif
path
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Format
Photographic Print
Rights Holder
No Known Rights Restrictions
Resource Type
Image
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