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- Sure is pretty
- Where’s Lucy and Desi?
- High class clean sweep
- Ranch!
- Obvious comment
- The combiner ...
- SAME NOW
- Trailer park
- Cold by any other name
- Forecast - hot and dry
- "Ranch" ??
- Still the same.
- Possibly current U.S. 87
- Caught
- Montana
- 1940 Ford
- Deprived for sure
- Highway 2?
- Miles and Miles
- What's the beef?
- Somebody didn't get enough sleep last night
- Carolina Blue
- 1928 Ford Phaeton
- +111
- +111
- +115
- +113
- Where's Betty and Veronica?
- Now
- Be seated, gentlemen
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Suppertime: 1939
February 1939. "Corpus Christi, Texas. Wife of war veteran living in shantytown on Nueces Bay." The lady last seen here. Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Neatness counts
Flour everywhere except on her dress and hands.
Clothing
She's got a good dress for such an occasion.
Taking it all for granted
The next time I start complaining about something, I'll try to remember this family.
Criminy
What an awful and complete mess and what a horrible way to live. These folks would probably be considered "homeless" today and even have less than this hovel to live in.
Overdressed?
That is a really pretty dress, compared to the threadbare cabin interior.
[Like a lot of the ladies in these photos, she might have donned her Sunday best for Mr. Government Photographer, as well as for you and me. - Dave]
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