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October 1938. "Mother and children with popcorn, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana." Valuable practice for the Popcorn Festival. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
The kids look like they just stepped out of a Peanuts comic strip.
The only difference is that my sisters would have been laughing at me for spilling my popcorn!
I wore a similar one-piece sunsuit with the too-short shorts in the early 1950's. I hated those things. And I had the same haircut, shined shoes and older sister who wore dresses like the girl has on. Sis couldn't walk half a block in a breeze without everybody seeing her drawers and this poor girl won't get that far either.
Just cute; there is nothing else to say!
I just don't understand the fashion of showing off every inch of your child's legs.
Somewhere there is a psychologist with a grumpy old man on his couch, trying to search through his childhood memories to determine what event has made him so miserable all these years.
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