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Published Date

June 1, 2017

Resource Type

For the Classroom

Thematic

Digital Methods, Labor, Public History, State & Local (US)

AHA Topics

Teaching & Learning

Geographic

United States

North Carolina Farm

Men gathered for wheat threshing on a Chatham County, North Carolina farm in 1912. Wheat threshing, like corn shucking, required cooperation among neighbors. Courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

North Carolina mountain farm

A North Carolina mountain farm in the early twentieth century. This family grew tobacco for cash and dried fruit for consumption and to trade with neighbors. Courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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