Mrs. Winnie Billings, North Wilkesboro, N.C.
Rating
Title
Mrs . Winnie Billings , North Wilkesboro , N.C .
Creator
Stutz, Carleton. Maxfield, Peter A.
Publisher
Virginia-Carolina Service Corporation (Richmond, Va.)
Date
[1939]
Description
The large Billings family is pictured standing in front of their house . There are several chairs and a box filled with tobacco bags shown .
Subject (tgm)
Houses Families Women Children
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
BILLINGS , MRS . WINNIE , aged 42 , married , North Wilkesboro , N.C . Children : Oakie Lee , aged 16 (infantile paralysis) . Wallace , aged 15 . Lawrence , aged 14 . Ida Lee , aged 12 . Virginia , aged 9 . Maiden , aged 7 . Verne , aged 6 . Betty Anne , aged 3 . INCOME : Husband works on WPA road work , earning $12.80 a month . He works only two weeks out of the month . HOME CONDITIONS : They rent a two-room shack and eight acres of land which they tend , paying one-third of the crop to its owner . Their stock consists of two cows and a few chickens but this does not supply them with the milk and eggs needed . She earns about $6.00 a month from stringing bags . All this is spent on food and clothes . They had to go in debt in order to buy the necessary food for the children . She has been stringing bags for years and finds the work very enjoyable as well as necessary in order that the children be fed and clothed .
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. Winnie Billings, 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_062.tif
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Format
Photographic Print
Rights Holder
No Known Rights Restrictions
Resource Type
Image
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