Wooly

Sheep at an agricultural college in Texas. January 1942.

Photo by Arthur Rothstein. [American Memory link]

Baby Bull

A male cow - also called a bull calf - at a college in Texas. 1942.

Photo by Arthur Rothstein. [American Memory link]

Shelter 2

Another shot of a baby goat with its own personal shelter. Texas, 1940.

Photo by Lee Russell. [American Memory link]

Shelter from the Storm

A young goat kid is protected from cold winds and blazing sun on a Texas ranch in 1940.

Photo by Russell Lee. [American Memory link]

Mechanization Meets the Farm

A hay-loading machine helps get the hay onto the wagon - but the wagon is still drawn by mules. 1938, Arkansas.

Photo by Lee Russell. [American Memory link]

Sheep Shipping

Sheep being herded onto train cars in Colorado, 1940. Despite the presence of girls in pretty dresses watching in the background , one suspects this was a noisy, odorous affair.

Photo by Russell Lee. [American Memory link]

New Wagon

A family in their new wagon. Georgia, 1939.

Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. [American Memory link]

Disease Prevention

A cowboy with a syringe used to immunize cows against Blackleg - a fatal disease that strikes cattle aged 6 months to 2 years. Montana, 1939.

Photo by Arthur Rothstein. [American Memory link]

Farmer's Daughter

The daugher of an Idaho farmer with puppies (click image for larger version).

Photo by Arthur Rothstein, 1936. [American Memory link]

Cat Cuddle

The son of a rancher in New Mexico's Rocky Mountains has a feline moment.

Photo by John Collier, 1943. [American Memory link]

Old Technology

A hand-powered corn grinder in 1939 Oklahoma. Photo by Russell Lee.

[American Memory link]

Horses Are Smelly, Too

In 1940 Iowa, corn got planted with the aid of farm animals - which required constant feeding and care. If your horses fell ill, your family's food supply might be threatened. Dire consequences lurked around every corner - which is why farm folk tend to be cautious and conservative.

Photo by John Vachon. [American Memory link]

Pigs Are Smelly

Hogs eating corn on a Missouri farm. Photo by Arthur Rothstein, 1939.

Many of us feel a nostalgia for simpler times. But the buildings in this photo look spare and impoverished. Not to mention that pigs are smelly - and make rude noises :-)

[American Memory link]

Charlie Chaplin Chicken

A poster for a sideshow at a county fair. Rutland, Vermont. 1941.

Photo by Jack Delano.
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: sideshow, poster

Newly Born

A newborn lamb, standing on his own four legs for the first time.

Montana, 1942. Photo by John Vachon.

[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: five, minute, lamb

More Frogs

Taken in Louisiana, in 1939, by Russell Lee.

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[American Memory link]

to locate this image, use search terms: store, sign, Louisiana

Frogs

An unusual distinction.

Photo taken by John Vachon near Boonsboro, Maryland - in 1939.

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[American Memory link]

to locate this image, use search terms: sign, Boonsboro, Maryland

Fettered Fox

Not something one sees every day. As the photo caption explains, this is a "Fox chained to [an] automobile."

Taken in Moorehead, Minnesota in Oct. 1940. The apparent water dish adds complexity to the scene.

(photographer: John Vachon)

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[American Memory link]