- Boy on left
- They had hot water heat
- Fit bunch
- Winners
- Chalk one up for the girls.
- Our Gang comedy in the making
- Twins?
- Adding and subtracting
- What's left of Mineral King Ranch
- 32 + 10 + 6 + 1 =
- I've come a long way, baby!
- The Bloom Is Off the Rose
- Bzzzz
- That style never goes away.
- Knudsen
- Familar curtains
- Flypaper - it still works!
- Spooky
- Of Pressing Need
- Sigh
- Interesting Bike
- Ghostliness
- The Pin On The Placket?
- Soapstone Laundry Sink
- I went to the 1939 World's Fair
- 1930s kitchen staples
- Down the Up Staircase
- Oxydol
- Help me! Help me!
- If ever there was a crooked man
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[REV 25-NOV-2014]
Vintage photos of:
The Lady in Red: 1945
Actually my aunt, Shirley Archer, daughter of Ralph E. and Mildred M. Archer, owners of the Archer Camera Shop in Titusville, Pennsylvania, seen here earlier. Scan from an early Kodachrome stereo slide taken by her father circa 1945 in their apartment above the camera store. View full size.
Young America: 1941
1941. "Kids' race at the Fourth of July celebration in Vale, Oregon." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 4 comments
- 786 reads
My Little Piggy: 1941
1941. "Boy who caught the greased pig at the Fourth of July celebration at Vale, Oregon. Says he's going to join the 4-H Club so he can learn how to feed his pig properly." Photo by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 1 comment
- 1215 reads
Heavy Cream: 1940
November 1940. "Tulare County, California. Son of worker weighing up milk at Mineral King cooperative farm. Accurate milk records of each cow are kept." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 4 comments
- 1899 reads
Character Study: 1940
May 1940. "Farm Security Administration client Roger Spence and two of his sons. Two miles out of Princess Anne, Maryland." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the FSA. View full size.
- 1 comment
- 1472 reads
Country Kitchen: 1938
1938. "Tolland County, Connecticut. The kitchen on the Schneider farm." Acetate negative by Sheldon Dick for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 14 comments
- 5405 reads
Pale Rider: 1940
May 1940. "Two boys, sons of fishermen. Deal Island, Maryland." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 4 comments
- 2320 reads
Favorite Daughter: 1940
May 1940. "One of the seven children of Burdell White, FSA client near Venton, Maryland." Photo by Jack Delano, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 4 comments
- 2745 reads
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