
December 1943. "Lynn Massman, wife of a second class petty officer studying in Washington, D.C., darns socks in the afternoon while baby Joey has his nap." View full size. Medium-format safety negative by Esther Bubley for the OWI.
Besides darning socks, another example of Lynn's thriftiness is her sewing box. It's an empty Whitman's Sampler candy box, probably a gift from her husband. My mother kept candy boxes given to her by my father and used them to store assorted keepsakes.