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| Title | Mrs. Emma Cleary, Wilkes County, 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 | The Cleary family is pictured standing in front of a stone wall. All of the family members hold tobacco bags. |
| Subject (tgm) | Families
Women
Children
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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 | Wilkes County (N.C.)
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| Title Note | Title supplied by repository. |
| Form General | Photographs. |
| Report Text | CLEARY, MRS. EMMA, married; two children; aged 30; husband aged 60; resides in Wilkes County, N.C. Children: William, aged 12 in school. Vassie, aged 8 in school.
INCOME: None.
HOME CONDITIONS: Own two-room log cabin and forty acres of land. Only five acres can be cultivated. Husband is barely able to raise the crops on this land as he is in very bad health, suffering from plagiary which keeps him in bed under doctor's care a good deal of the time. He owes doctor about $150 but cannot pay on it. He cannot afford to buy medicine, since the only money coming in is from the bags, and has to be spent on food. The house is roughly furnished but neatly kept and clean. There is no electricity, running water or inside toilet facilities. Water is supplied by a well. If the bags are taken away they will not possibly be able to exist. He cannot hold a job on account of his health. The storekeeper has been giving them food since the bags have stopped coming in. |
| 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. Emma Cleary, 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_074.tif |
| path | \ncc\tbs\ |
| Format | Photographic Print |
| Rights Holder | Public domain |
