| dc.coverage.spatial | Kilgore County (USA, Texas) | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-07-28T19:54:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-07-28T19:54:18Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1950 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.identifier.other | Photograph location: Box 1-118 | |
| dc.identifier.other | Image file name: CMLAGC00057.jp2 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/92011 | |
| dc.description | Thirteen African American women standing in front of a canning house. Most are dressed in all white, with white caps, and the others are dressed in floral print dresses. | en |
| dc.description | Pyrtle Community Women, Kilgore, Texas. These club women have had built a modern canning house of new lumber, corrugated roofing, three ventilators, concrete floor, brick furnace, stationed and movable tables, and screens at a cost of $317.50. The club has one hotel-sized canner, one Burpee sealer, and a membership of thirty-five women and twenty-nine girls | en |
| dc.description | The cannery is able to provide canned food for fifty members' families in the community. Plans for the canning house were furnished by the Prairie View Extension Department. The farmers, assisted by County Agent H.L. Brown and Albert Coss, principal of the Pyrtle School. | en |
| dc.description | Although some of the descriptions of photographs in this collection have been altered for clarity, a majority of the descriptions are transcribed verbatim from the back of the photographs and reflect the language of those times. | en |
| dc.format.extent | Photographic print size: 5x8 inches | en |
| dc.format.medium | Photograph | en |
| dc.publisher | Physical: Agricultural Communications and Journalism Program, Texas A&M University | |
| dc.publisher | Digital: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University, <a href="mailto:cushing-library@tamu.edu">Email</a>, Phone: 979-845-1951, <a href="http://cushing.library.tamu.edu/">Website</a> | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Historic African-American Farm Work, The Texas A&M Agricultural Communications Photograph Collection | en |
| dc.rights | It is the users responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holders for publication of any materials. Permission must be obtained in writing prior to publication. Please contact the Cushing Memorial Library for further information. | en |
| dc.title | Pyrtle Community Women | en |
| dc.type | Image | en |
| dc.subject.tgn | Kilgore (USA, Texas) | en |
| dc.subject.tgn | Brown, H.L. | en |
| dc.subject.tgn | Coss, Albert | en |
| dc.subject.tgn | Pyrtle School | en |
| dc.subject.tgn | Pyrtle Community Women | en |
| dc.subject.tgn | Kilgore (USA, Texas) | en |
| dc.subject.tgn | Prairie View Extension Department | en |
| dc.subject.tgn | Agriculture | en |
| dc.subject.tgn | Group portraits | en |
| dc.subject.tgn | Canneries | en |
| dc.subject.tgn | Cannery workers | en |
| local.sequence | 5700 | en |
