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- 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
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
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The Matriarchs: 1937
July 1937. "Sharecropper's wife, mother of seven. Woman in doorway is mother of fourteen, ten living; fifty-six grandchildren. Near Chesnee, South Carolina." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Chesnee
I live near Chesnee and am always fascinated by the numerous Depression photos from the area. I bet this lady is a Scruggs, since it seems at least 25 percent of the longtime residents, even back to the Revolutionary War era, are named Scruggs. A good second guess would be Martin or Cash. Graveyards in the area are chock full of those names.
Family Planning
What a wonderful thing birth control turned out to be for the women born after these two.
56?
This was obviously before the "I have a headache" Era
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