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Home economics and home management class for adults, under supervision of Miss Evelyn M. Driver (standing in white uniform). Everything they make including the small handmade looms, utilizes materials of local origin as cornshucks, cane, flour and meal and feed sacks, etc. Flint River Farms, Georgia

FSA Georgia Home Demonstration Home Ec Wolcott

There are difficulties, but encouragement

4-H Home Demonstration Home Ec Texas
Black and white photograph of girls lined up holding patchwork quilts

Harlingen, Texas. FSA (Farm Security Administration) camp. Sewing room

FSA Home Ec Rothstein Texas
Three women standing around a stack of rolled fabric

A young woman on a NYA sewing project in Minnesota

Home Ec Minnesota NYA

At Work in WPA Sewing Room

Home Ec In the News Pennsylvania WPA

Resettlement Administration; Rural Rehabilitation; “Quilting project”; Rock Crest School, Chambersburg TWP., Iredell Co., N.C.

Home Ec North Carolina

Thelma Shamburg and Mrs. Spragg (or Sprague), NYA (National Youth Administration) state supervisor, helping Catherine Plumer and Sallie Titus at sewing machines in school economics room. Gee’s Bend, Alabama

Alabama FSA Home Ec NYA Wolcott

NYA (National Youth Administration) girls making bedspreads under supervision of Juanita Coleman, NYA leader, in school home economics room. Gee’s Bend, Alabama

Alabama FSA Home Ec NYA Wolcott

A display of sewing and needle work made by NYA (National Youth Administration) girls in school home economics room. Gee’s Bend, Alabama

Alabama FSA Home Ec NYA Wolcott

At a meeting of the Clark Hill Club, conducted by Miss Velma Patterson, vocational field worker from Elba, at the home of FSA (Farm Security Administration) project family, J.A. Veasy. The women discuss materials for clothing and curtains. Coffee County, Alabama

Alabama FSA Home Ec Wolcott