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Real Simple: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 12:53am.
July 1939. "Corner of tobacco farmer's front room. Shows enclosed stairway and corner of the new fancy bed. Person County, North Carolina." (Whitfield home.) Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange. View full size.
Stairway
Submitted by England on Sat, 01/19/2008 - 5:52pm.
I've visited an abandoned mill town here in North Carolina where the company houses look similar. In particular the enclosed stairs are something you don't see much anymore; in the mill town the steps for every single stairway were apparently removable, because they were all missing.
Tiger Maple
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sat, 01/19/2008 - 12:31pm.
The bed appears to have tiger maple veneer -- fancy indeed.
Thomas Jefferson's home has cat doors for the inside rooms--only, being the architect he was, his were single round "portholes" near the bottom and in the center, just the right size for cats.
Cut-out?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 11:37am.
There appears to be a cut-out in the lower corner of the stairway door. I wonder if this family had a cat?
While cats are usually considered pets these days, on farms they were necessary to keep the vermin population under control.
January & June?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 11:34am.
Calendars appear to show January and June 1939.
See link below for how those months would be displayed on this type of calendar:
Assuming 1939...
Submitted by warreno on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 11:21am.
...the calendar on the left is showing the month of January; the one on the right is showing March.
Conjecture: the photo was published in July, but taken in February?
[The calendar on the right is June 1939. - Dave]
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