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    • Woman strains cooking molasses

    • Woman strains cooking molasses

    • Agriculture; Animals; Home food processing; Molasses

    • An unidentified woman empties a scoop full of liquid into a bucket beside a rectangular vat of boiling molasses. The scoop held by the woman is flat and square with raised sides like a shovel. A sled of sorghum cane is to the left of the woman,...
    • Ferrum College
    • Woman cuts meat in general store

    • Woman cuts meat in general store

    • Home food processing; General stores; Equipment

    • An unidentified woman cuts meat with a large knife on a small table in a store. A Toledo meat slicer sits on the table the woman uses as a work space. A calendar hangs on the wall over the table, and goods are visible on shelves against the wall...
    • Ferrum College
    • Woman guides ox cart down a road

    • Woman guides ox cart down a road

    • Animals; Transportation; Carts & wagons

    • A woman walks down a dirt road beside a team of oxen pulling a wagon. The woman holds a rope in her right hand. The small wagon is filled with white sacks. The road is located in Indian Valley, Virginia. Palmer titled this photo "Old ...
    • Ferrum College
    • Woman reaches for quilt batting

    • Woman reaches for quilt batting

    • Quilting; Textiles; Agricultural facilities

    • An older woman standing behind a wooden quilting frame reaches out across quilt batting. A young woman stands beside the other woman, holding a corner of the batting. A finished quilt hangs across a line tied to an outbuilding in the background. ...
    • Ferrum College
    • Elderly woman displays 1900 quilt

    • Elderly woman displays 1900 quilt

    • Portrait photographs; Textiles; Quilting

    • Portrait of an older woman standing outside in front of a fence. The woman holds a patchwork quilt in front of her body, with the year 1900 stitched inside one of the quilt pieces. The woman is looking away from the camera. Part of a series of...
    • Ferrum College
    • A Woman One Day...

    • A Woman One Day...

    • Ballads; Spirituals;

    • Virgie Wallin sings a ballad in her Madison county home for a high school group from Paideia school in Atlanta. The group is led by John Sundale. Virgie's husband, Cas, is also present.
    • Warren Wilson 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
    • 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
    • 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 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 and woman taste just-made molasses

    • Man and woman taste just-made molasses

    • Food; Home food processing; Molasses

    • A man and a young woman bend over a rectangular vat used to boil sorghum juice into molasses. The man leans against the vat with one hand, while licking one finger on his other hand. The woman's right hand reaches into the vat, while her left...
    • Ferrum College
    • Unidentified woman stirs contents of kettle

    • Unidentified woman stirs contents of kettle

    • Household soap; Fences; Equipment

    • An unidentified woman stirs soap cooking in a kettle over an open fire outside. Steam rises from the kettle. The woman holds a small sauce pan in her left hand. A metal bucket, can, and glass jar hang upside down over the picket fence in the...
    • Ferrum College
    • Man and woman stand near kettle

    • Man and woman stand near kettle

    • Household soap; Equipment

    • An unidentified man and woman stand near a kettle of cooking soap. The woman holds a wooden handled tool used to stir the soap in her right hand. The implement has a round metal disc at the end of the handle. She also holds a small metal pot in...
    • Ferrum College
    • Man and woman strain sorghum cane juice

    • Man and woman strain sorghum cane juice

    • Agriculture; Home food processing; Molasses

    • Newton Hylton and an unidentified woman stand over a low, rectangular vat and strain sorghum juice. The woman holds a cloth sack open while Hylton pours sorghum juice from a metal bucket into the sack. Part of a larger series of photos on...
    • Ferrum College
    • Unidentified woman posing with quilt

    • Unidentified woman posing with quilt

    • Portrait photographs; Quilting; Textiles

    • A woman stands outside holding a folded quilt in front of her. Woman's pocketbook hangs from her left arm. Part of a series of photos on quilting at Lera Rakes' home on Turkey Cock Creek.
    • Ferrum College
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