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A Fishing Boat Cook Peeling Potatoes | History Of SC Slide Collection

Women are not the only ones who cook in South Carolina! This cook on a fishing boat in Charleston is peeling potatoes for Christmas dinner in December 1938. Photograph for the Farm Security Administration by Marion Post.

Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

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A Typical "Dug Well" | History Of SC Slide Collection

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A Typical "Dug Well" | History Of SC Slide Collection
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