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Pails in Comparison: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 2:02pm.
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September 1939. Children's lunch pails wait for their owners in a rural Wisconsin schoolhouse. View full size. Photograph by John Vachon.
re:I *DO* love the lone paper bag
Submitted by tim on Wed, 01/16/2008 - 12:19pm.
Wouldn't that be the richest kid in the class ... they could afford to use disposable items or went to the store often.
Re: Vachon Schoolhouse
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 10:07pm.
The caption cards for these school photos don't record a location, but it's between pictures taken in Fennimore and Boscobel.
Location of Schoolhouse
Submitted by CheeseHead on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 9:33pm.
I've seen other photos of this rural Wisconsin schoolhouse taken by Vachon and one of these days I plan to track down its exact location . . . was somewhere in southwest Wisconsin based on Vachon's travels through the area in 1939. I'm sure the schoolhouse is long gone but I think it would be fun to locate its site and see what is there today.
I *DO* love the lone paper bag...
Submitted by mad4books on Thu, 07/26/2007 - 10:58am.
...and my first thought was that it either belonged to the poorest kid in the class or the teacher, neither of whom could afford a pail!
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Submitted by Ron on Wed, 07/25/2007 - 7:08am.
All those lunch boxes and pails, you got to love the lone paper bag.
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Submitted by pb on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 3:35pm.
No cartoon characters on those lunch pails? How did those kids live?
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