Manuscript/Mixed Material [Elsie Wall]
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Image 1 of [Elsie Wall] Wake Forest Cotton Mill Wake Forest, N. C. July 27, 1938 I. L. M. ELSIE WALL Elsie Wall sits on her porch between dinner and supper and rocks in her chair with...- Contributor: I.L.M. - Wall, Elsie
- Date: 1938-07-27
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Image 2 of [Elsie Wall] 2 “Mother, just give me a cup of coffee; that's all the breakfast I want.” Jim buys the groceries for the family. It isn't that Elsie doesn't have time to do it....- Contributor: I.L.M. - Wall, Elsie
- Date: 1938-07-27
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Image 3 of [Elsie Wall] 3 seven and ten. The questions she raises seem reasonable enough. How can her children eat and have warm clothes too out of six dollars a week? Would you be willing to...- Contributor: I.L.M. - Wall, Elsie
- Date: 1938-07-27
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Image 4 of [Elsie Wall] 4 unless you are able to wire your own house. She says, “It's just as bad as living in the country.” But one of the worst disadvantages, she says, is to have...- Contributor: I.L.M. - Wall, Elsie
- Date: 1938-07-27
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Image 5 of [Elsie Wall] 5 However, she likes the cotton mill fine if they could make a living at it. If she and Jim both could work or if Jim could make a living wage so...- Contributor: I.L.M. - Wall, Elsie
- Date: 1938-07-27
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Image 6 of [Elsie Wall] 6 “And I never could get up enough faith in God to trust to “layin' on hands,” for healin' the sick. The Bible says send for a physician. When my little home...- Contributor: I.L.M. - Wall, Elsie
- Date: 1938-07-27
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Image 7 of [Elsie Wall] 7 Inside the respectably clean room Elsie brought forth framed pictures of Helen Twelvetrees, Ginger Rogers, Jean Harlow, and Gene Autrey. At the mention of these names the girls came rushing out...- Contributor: I.L.M. - Wall, Elsie
- Date: 1938-07-27
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Image 8 of [Elsie Wall] 8 Her man don't make much more than mine neither,” she finished as she rocked slowly back and forth in her chair. A few minutes later as I was leaving I ventured...- Contributor: I.L.M. - Wall, Elsie
- Date: 1938-07-27