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    • Magazine article on gristmill

    • Magazine article on gristmill

    • Mills;

    • A two page photo story on the Tom Agee gristmill in "Friends" magazine titled "Old Mill in the Hills." Photos of the structure and operations of the mill are shown and include captions. Palmer titled this photo "Tom Agee...
    • Ferrum College
    • Woman uses hammer to crack walnut

    • Woman uses hammer to crack walnut

    • Food; Equipment; Nuts

    • A woman holds a walnut against a flat rock in her lap with her left hand, and grips a hammer in her right hand, preparing to crack the nut. Cracked walnut shells lay on the rock in her lap. Other women crack nuts in the background; one is bent...
    • Ferrum College
    • Woman peels shell away from walnut

    • Woman peels shell away from walnut

    • Food; Equipment; Nuts

    • Close up photo of a woman's hands as she peels a cracked shell way from a walnut with her fingers. A hammer, flat rock, and walnut shells lay on her lap on top of a newspaper. Another female walnut cracker sits to the right of the sheller; the...
    • Ferrum College
    • Bowl of shelled walnuts

    • Bowl of shelled walnuts

    • Food; Nuts

    • Close up photo of a woman's hands raising shelled walnuts out of a metal bowl up to the camera. The bowl and a flat rock rest on the woman's lap. Palmer titled this series of photos "Walnut cracking, Walter Dehart home." Dehart's home...
    • Ferrum College
    • Three women crack walnuts

    • Three women crack walnuts

    • Food; Equipment; Dwellings; Nuts

    • Three women sit in chairs outside of a log house and crack walnuts. One woman hammers a walnut on a flat rock in her lap while the other two peel the shells from the nuts with their fingers. Palmer titled this series of photos "Walnut...
    • Ferrum College
    • Walnut crackers shell nuts

    • Walnut crackers shell nuts

    • Food; Equipment; Nuts

    • Two women sit side-by-side cracking walnuts. The woman on the left holds a walnut in her left hand, with a flat rock, a hammer, a newspaper, and cracked walnut shells laying in her lap. The woman on the right holds a walnut against a rock with...
    • Ferrum College
    • Woman shells walnut

    • Woman shells walnut

    • Food; Equipment; Nuts

    • Close up of a woman's hands as she removes the shell from a walnut after cracking it with a hammer. A flat rock, a hammer, and walnut shells lay across the woman's lap. Palmer titled this series of photos "Walnut cracking, Walter Dehart...
    • 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
    • Women crack walnuts

    • 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
    • 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
    • Group of women crack walnuts

    • 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
    • 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
    • Family peels apples

    • Family peels apples

    • Preserves; Children; Dwellings; Food; Home food processing

    • Portrait of a family peeling a large number of apples. Two boys sitting on the ground are eating apples, and the little girl in the chair to the far right holds a baby doll. The other boy, man, and two women peel apples. Baskets on the ground...
    • Ferrum College
    • Young women fill jars with molasses

    • Young women fill jars with molasses

    • Home food processing; Molasses

    • A young woman bends over a crock, ladling molasses through a funnel into a mason jar. Another young woman uses a cloth to wipe off full jars of molasses sitting on an overturned metal tub. Part of a larger series of photos on molasses making that...
    • Ferrum College
    • Women fill jars of molasses

    • Women fill jars of molasses

    • Home food processing; Molasses

    • A woman dips molasses from a crock with a ladle in her right hand. Her left hand holds a glass mason jar with a funnel in its mouth. A young woman stands ready with a jar lid in her hands. Boxes of mason jars sit on the ground around the two...
    • Ferrum College
    • Two men and a woman strain molasses

    • Two men and a woman strain molasses

    • Home food processing; Molasses

    • One man holds the twisted burlap sack of molasses while a man and woman squeeze two sticks together at the base of the twist to force the molasses through the sack into a crock. This strains impurities from the molasses. Other people stand behind...
    • Ferrum College
    • Twisted burlap sack of strained molasses

    • Twisted burlap sack of strained molasses

    • Home food processing; Molasses

    • Close up photo of a twisted burlap sack full of molasses. One man holds the sack, while the hands of two other people press down on a stick on top of the sack. This presses the molasses through the sack into the crock below while any impurities...
    • Ferrum College
    • Woman pours molasses into crock

    • Woman pours molasses into crock

    • Home food processing; Molasses

    • A woman pours a saucepan full of molasses into a crock lined with a burlap sack held in place by another woman. A second crock sits on the ground behind the women. Mason jars and boxes also sit on the ground. Two other standing women are visible...
    • Ferrum College
    • Man skims molasses with spatula

    • Man skims molasses with spatula

    • Home food processing; Molasses

    • A man skims the top of a vat of molasses with a spatula while two women transfer molasses into a burlap sack inside a crock. Part of a larger series of photos on molasses making that Palmer titled, "Molasses stir off, Indian Valley."
    • Ferrum College
    • Transferring molasses into crock

    • 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
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