“SORGHUM FACTORY-- The mule [g]oes round and round and the sorghum (can[e] syrup) comes out in the bucket. This is one of the typical and picturesque scenes in the Blue Ridge Mountains.”

Source: Image and caption from "Sorghum Factory," postcard NC 9 in Variety Vacation Land, Raleigh, N.C.: Department of Conservation and Development, [1939]. North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. VCp917 N87c.