Broom (House) To make a broom like the one seen here, a farmer gathers broom straw found in the field, removes any seedpods, and bundles the straw together with tobacco twine. Using broom straw creates soft bristles that do not scratch the surface being swept, but that does remove dirt from the inside of the farmhouse. Early 20th Century. $http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/artifact.aspx?id=tbo Tobacco Farm Life Museum 13977 745 0cm x 0cm North Carolina History and Fiction Collection encdl Artifacts encdlartifacts Tobacco Farm Life Museum tfl Broom (House) To make a broom like the one seen here, a farmer gathers broom straw found in the field, removes any seedpods, and bundles the straw together with tobacco twine. Using broom straw creates soft bristles that do not scratch the surface being swept, but that does remove dirt from the inside of the farmhouse. Early 20th Century. $http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/artifact.aspx?id=tbo J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University 13977 local, filename 13977.0001 17712336 image/tiff 6.0 PRONOM PUID: fmt/10 little endian uncompressed MD5 6be07247b168d750b85ad4de03b2fd84 ecu:digital_collections 1960 3008 RGB 0 mm 0 mm 20110121 Digital Collections Nikon D200 D200 Adobe Photoshop 10.0.1 object plane in. 300 1 300 1 8 integer 3 internal null md5 True