October 1938. "Cajun girl at National Rice Festival. Crowley, Louisiana." 35mm negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Sun, 07/27/2008 - 12:57pm.
I love all the "helpful" advice from the trendy commenters of today. However, if they were suddenly plunked back into those old photos, they'd be the ones quite out of place, and themselves the recipients of all kinds of helpful advice on how out to become fashionable and trendy...for then.
Take-away point...if you see a "look" in a photo, that was pretty much what everyone wanted to look like at the time.
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 06/04/2008 - 9:36pm.
The reason I clicked on the photo is the girl on the right could be my mother's sister. Mom was also 18 at the time, but in Massachusetts ... uncanny. Can't wait to show my sister.
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 06/03/2008 - 10:09am.
The girl on the right looks so much like my grandmother it's spooky. She would have been 18 at the time. She and her family, however, are all from Virginia. I wonder if it's some distant cousin or something. I've heard it said that everyone has a double, and I believe I just found hers, or at least a photo of hers.
