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Item information

Title:
Home Demonstration Agent, Farm and Home Makers Conference
Description:
Transcribed from back: New Bern, N.C. August 15, 1940, Miss Ruth Current, State Home [Demonstration] Agent speaking to a joint session of Negro Farm and Home Makers Conference in New Bern; (3 Extra Copies); Transcribed from information found with negative: No., Negro work; Date, August 1940; Subject, Farm and House Makers Conference at New Bern; Location, Craven [County]; Used In: [Extension] Farm News - October, 1940.
Topics:
Community and Extension
Subjects:
African American farmers
African American women
Home demonstration work
Home economics
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Original Format:
Black and white print (photograph)
Item identifier:
ua023_007-007-bx0025-009-070
Photographer:
Jones, Robert Earle, 1922-2000 more info on Jones, Robert Earle, 1922-2000 
Created Date:
Other Date:
Genre:
News photographs
Names:
Current, Ruth Augusta, 1901-1967 more info on Current, Ruth Augusta, 1901-1967 
Location:
New Bern (N.C.)
Digital Project:
University Archives Photographs