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Title	Tobacco Bag Stringing
View collection at	http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/tbs/index.html
Description	Members of farm families in North Carolina supplemented their incomes by sewing drawstrings into cotton tobacco bags. This site reproduces the "Report on Tobacco Bag Stringing Operations in North Carolina and Virginia" that was produced in 1939. Each record includes a photograph and biographical note about the tobacco bag stringer(s).
Subject	Depressions -- 1929 Employment Tobacco industry Women
Place	United States -- North Carolina -- Rockingham County United States -- North Carolina -- Wilkes County United States -- Virginia -- Richmond
Time Period	1930-1939
Publisher	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library
Primary Sources	Photographs
Supplementary materials	Contextual essay

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