Be sure to click this image for a larger view. The caption accompanying this shot tells us this milk arrived in Caldwell, Idaho via train. 1941.Photo by Russell Lee. [American Memory link]
Showing posts with label Idaho. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Idaho. Show all posts
Aug 21, 2009
Milk Train
Be sure to click this image for a larger view. The caption accompanying this shot tells us this milk arrived in Caldwell, Idaho via train. 1941.Photo by Russell Lee. [American Memory link]
Jul 21, 2009
Reading the Mail
This young man, photographed in 1942 Idaho, looks remarkably contemporary.Photo by Russell Lee. [American Memory link]
Jul 13, 2009
Feb 17, 2009
Farmer's Daughter
The daugher of an Idaho farmer with puppies (click image for larger version).Photo by Arthur Rothstein, 1936. [American Memory link]
Jan 14, 2009
Extracurricular
It isn't clear whether young people would normally be recruited for such tasks in heavily agricultural 1940s American - or whether labor was in short supply due to the war.At any rate, this series of photos shows hundreds of co-ed high-school students being trucked into Idaho pea fields to help with the harvest.
Photo by Russell Lee, 1941. [American Memory link]
Dec 22, 2008
Checking It Twice
Childen in rural Idaho. October, 1939.
Photos by Dorothea Lange.
[American Memory link] to locate these images, use search terms: fruitland, children
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