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- 49 Women
- Blues music; Guitars; Mouth organs; Singing;
- Bobby (Robert) Buford plays guitar and sings a blues song with Keith Rodgers playing the harmonica. This takes place in Bobby's home in the city of Pulaski, Virginia.
- Ferrum College
- Service women - speakers for Vocations Day
- Women; Military service; World War II; Tennessee Wesleyan College
- 3 1/2" x 5" black and white photograph (now, sepia) of five women representing women in military service in World War II for Vocations Day at the college. They are standing in front of the "Old College" building.
- Tennessee Wesleyan College
- Women crack walnuts
- Dwellings; Food; Equipment; Nuts
- A group of women sitting in a semicircle outside in front of a log house crack walnuts. The women hammer the walnut shells on flat rocks in their laps to get to the nut inside. Several women have newspapers under the rocks on their laps to keep...
- Ferrum College
- Group of women crack walnuts
- Dwellings; Food; Equipment; Nuts
- A group of women sit in chairs outside a log house, cracking walnuts. The women hold a flat rock on their laps and use hammers to hit the walnuts onto the rock to crack their shells. One woman stands and holds her hammer and rock in her hands. ...
- Ferrum College
- Women strain molasses
- Home food processing; Molasses
- Two women kneel on the ground with a large crock between them. The women hold a burlap sack over the edges of the crock. One woman moves a saucepan full of molasses from a rectangular vat to the crock. Other women stand in the background, with...
- Ferrum College
- Quilters around a quilting frame
- Quilting; Textiles; Dwellings
- A group of women sit and stand around a wooden quilting frame set up in front of a log cabin. Ends of the frame are held up by chairs. Two women sew while the three other women adjust the far end of the quilting frame. Three women wear large...
- Ferrum College
- Tell All Them Women, Please Come Dressed in Red...
- Blues music; Guitars; Singing;
- Poor Howard plays twelve-string guitar and sings at the Asheville Junction, founded by Andy Cohen.
- Warren Wilson College
- Young women on the lawn of Ritter Hall
- Education; Tennessee Wesleyan College; Students; Women
- 2 1/2" x 4" black and white photograph (now, sepia) of young women posing on the lawn of Ritter Hall, under the "big elm" tree. The photograph is in a scrapbook on a page with three other photographs. Written on the black page...
- Tennessee Wesleyan College
- Women's Hiking Group
- Students; Women; Universities & colleges; Tennessee Wesleyan College
- A group of about 18 women pose on a grassy hillside. Inscription handwritten under photo reads "Hiking"
- Tennessee Wesleyan College
- Women on campus
- Women; Tennessee Wesleyan College
- Eight young women in lovely dresses outside on campus grounds
- Tennessee Wesleyan College
- Virginia Hall
- Women; Women's education; Dormitories; Universities & colleges;
- A group of women students gathered outside the southern entrance into Virginia Hall.
- Tusculum College
- Virginia dorm room
- Women; Women's education; Universities & colleges;
- Image of a women's dormitory room in Virginia Hall.
- Tusculum College
- Virginia Hall on May 9, 1902
- Dormitories; Office buildings; Women; Women's education; Universities & colleges;
- Virginia Hall was constructed in 1901 with funds received from Nettie Fowler McCormick. The architect for this building is Louis Sullivan who designed the Chicago skyline. Virginia Hall served Tusculum College as a women's dormitory for most of...
- Tusculum College
- Dr. Mezoff and women
- Women; College presidents; Cafeterias; Eating & drinking;
- Dr. Earl Mezoff sitting at a table of women alumni in the cafeteria.
- Tusculum College
- Young women on brow of hill at Milligan College
- Colleges; Women;
- Young women on brow of hill with their backs to the southeast at Milligan College.
- Milligan College
- Women of the Mountains
- Education
- Text of a brochure written by Rev. Edgar Tufts, Principle of the Girls Department of Lees-McRae Institute, Banner Elk, North Carolina, describing the plight of young women in the mountains of Western North Carolina and requesting scholarship...
- Lees-McRae College
- Cherokee Indians
- Indians of North America
- Description of the author's visit to the Cherokee Indians of Qualla Town in Heywood County, North Carolina.
- Lees-McRae College
- Transferring molasses into crock
- Home food processing; Molasses
- Two women kneel on the ground around a stone crock. A burlap sack lines the inside of the crock, held in place by the women's hands. One woman ladles molasses from the cooking vat into the crock with a saucepan. Other crocks and metal tubs sit...
- Ferrum College
- Women taste molasses
- Food; Home food processing; Molasses
- Three women and one man stand around a rectangular vat used to boil sorghum juice into molasses. Two women are bent over, running their fingers along the bottom and sides of the vat. The other woman licks one of her fingers to taste the just-made...
- Ferrum College
- Women and girls around quilting frame
- Quilting; Textiles; Agricultural facilities
- Five women and two young girls stand around a wooden quilting frame set up outside in front of an outbuilding. The women and girl fasten opposite corners of the quilt to the frame. Finished quilts hang over a line in the background. Part of a...
- Ferrum College