Tobacco Bag Stringing

Mrs. Flossie Johnson, Reidsville, N.C. (1939). Filename VC331.76_S93s_091.tif.

University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill's Digital Collections include the Tobacco Bag Stringing digitized collection. Throughout the tobacco-growing regions of the American South during the Great Depression, individuals and families earned much-needed income by sewing drawstrings into small cotton tobacco bags. This website presents images and text from a report in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documenting tobacco bag stringing work in North Carolina and Virginia in 1939.