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    • Women of the Mountains

    • 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
    • Older woman cracks a walnut

    • Older woman cracks a walnut

    • Food; Equipment; Nuts

    • An older woman with a scarf around her head cracks a walnut on a rock in her lap with a hammer. The rock sits on top of a Roanoke Times newspaper that lays across the woman's lap. Palmer titled this series of photos "Walnut cracking, Walter...
    • Ferrum College
    • Woman cracks walnut with hammer

    • Woman cracks walnut with hammer

    • Food; Equipment; Nuts

    • Close up of a woman's hands as she uses a hammer to crack a walnut shell. The woman holds the nut in her left hand against the flat rock in her lap. The hammer in her right hand is blurred as she prepares to hit the nut. Other shelled walnuts...
    • Ferrum College
    • Small girl cracks walnut

    • Small girl cracks walnut

    • Children; Equipment; Food; Nuts

    • A little girl wearing a sweater with a scarf around her head uses a hammer to crack open a walnut shell on a flat rock in the lap of an older woman. Palmer titled this series of photos "Walnut cracking, Walter Dehart home." Dehart's...
    • Ferrum College
    • Jug 1981.002.0006.A01 (Overall View)

    • Jug 1981.002.0006.A01 (Overall View)

    • Pottery -- Appalachian Region

    • Jug, earthenware, albany-slip-glaze. 11.5" height, 0.7" mouth diameter, 7.4" base diameter. Cracks and chips at bottom. Now item 1981.2.6 in the Berea College Appalachian Artifacts Collection.
    • Berea College
    • [Hillbilly Wooden Jewelry Box]

    • [Hillbilly Wooden Jewelry Box]
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    • Overall: The Lid contains the depiction of a "hillbilly" man fishing in a creek while smoking a pipe. Cracks are seen on the lid of the box. <br> Colors: The box is brown in color with dark brown markings and a painted brown and...
    • Berea College
    • [Boot Last]

    • [Boot Last]

    • Shoemaking

    • The last is light brown in color and is made out of solid wood that has been hand-carved. The last has areas where nails are exposed and have turned the wood around it black. One main nail is seen on the upper ankle area of the last. The wood is...
    • Berea College
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