This is a portrait of Ms. Neva Adams at work in the stitching room of the Morehead City Garment Company in Morehead City, N.C., in 1942. People called it the "Shirt Factory," and I still remember my elderly cousins speaking of the deep feeling of sisterhood that they felt when they worked there. (Part 10 of my "Working Lives" series.)
World War II
On the Old Mullet Road, 1942
In this 9th photo-essay in my "Working Lives" series, I am looking at several photographs that feature workers on a railroad that old timers, when I was a boy, still called the "Old Mullet Road."
In the Peanut Fields of Edenton, 1937-1942
This is the first photo-essay in my series "Working Lives: Photographs of Eastern North Carolina, 1937-1947." In this photo-essay I am looking at a group of 21 photographs that chronicle threshing time on a peanut farm near Edenton, N.C. in the years just before the Second World War.
The Pamlico Shipyard, August 1944
This is the Pamlico Shipyard, Washington, N.C., August 1944. Built in the early part of 1943, the shipyard was located on the banks of the Pamlico River, at the site of an old gypsum mill.
David Cecelski 