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- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
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Migrant Madonna: 1939
June 1939. "Wife and baby of itinerant cane furniture maker and agricultural day laborer camped in Wagoner County, Oklahoma." 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
The Chair
Someone had some impressive chair-making skills.
Shorpy's Migrant Mothers
Shorpy showed us many "Migrant Mothers" in the past, an overview:
The famous 1936 Migrant Mother, root of all migrant mothers it seems, if you prefer colorized, or more enhanced (which made her a year older?), or with children, and a 1936 Migrant Mother II (hope that Dororthea asked her permission for the indecency).
We also have a 1936 Migrant Daughter, who becomes a mother when colorized.
In 1939 there are several: alone, just finished washing, with a sick baby, or with a healthy one, or with a triplet of children.
In 1940 our series ends, for the moment, with a Migrant Mother, in the family car or behind it.
My favorite is today's Madonna.
Thanks Shorpy for the series!
That child
Now is about 73, 74. How marvelous if she (or he) discovers this photo on Shorpy. What stories we could hear.
Lee - One of the Masters of Photography
Images like this separate the truly great photographers from everyone else. Lee and Delano and Evans did this peerlessly.
Compare to "Migrant Mother"
Certainly on a par with "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange. Thanks for doing digital justice with this fine image - as usual. Was struck by the baby's shoes; they seem expensively out of place, yet it's easy to imagine parents with almost nothing still finding the ability to give their child the best they could.
Such a beautiful picture!
She is very much in love with her baby. The hardships they're enduring are forgotten in this one moment together.
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