North Carolina During the Great Depression: A Documentary Portrait of a DecadeMcFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 30 янв. 2003 г. - Всего страниц: 263 Through interviews with survivors of the Depression, the use of photographs taken by Federally supported photographers (many reproduced here) and research into the history of the period, the work provides an accurate and even uplifting portrait of the people of the mountains, piedmont and Coastal areas of North Carolina in the 1930s. The chapters include examinations of the industries and natural resources of North Carolina during the Depression, as well as information on the education, health, population, labor, governorships, housing and entertainment of the time. The effects of the New Deal Programs and other important historic events are discussed. The work includes 200 photographs to complement interviews with North Carolina natives about their experiences, as well as appendices, a bibliography, and an index covering important federal photographers in North Carolina during the Great Depression. |
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... Usually at one end of the big room was a large fireplace . Other fixtures of the typical mill room usually consisted of a corn sheller , a pair of scales or steelyards , a few wooden barrels into which toll corn was poured , some re ...
... usually been located far from the house to decrease the smells and flies , and would kill the hog by shooting it or by using a heavy mallet or axe to crush its skull . They would hang the huge animal - usually weighing sev- eral hundred ...
... Usually the traveling trains or trucks ar- rived in rural communities in the fall after the laborers had picked the cotton and har- vested the tobacco . The amusement owners wanted to be sure that their arrival came when the people had ...
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