[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: Chicago, dancing, music
Dec 31, 2008
Dec 30, 2008
Good Times
Photo by Russell Lee.
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: youngsters, dance
Labels:
boys,
Chamber of Commerce,
dancing,
girls,
music,
Russell Lee,
Texas
Dec 29, 2008
Swing Your Partner
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: new, square, dance
Labels:
dancing,
girls,
music,
New Mexico,
Russell Lee,
women
Dec 28, 2008
Home Delivery
Photo by Russell Lee.
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: grocery, boys
Dec 27, 2008
Light on White
Photo taken by Arthur Rothstein in New Hampshire, 1936.
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: new, snow, fence
Labels:
Arthur Rothstein,
fences,
New Hampshire,
snow
Dec 26, 2008
Slipping & Sliding
Photo by Jack Delano.
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: sledding, children
Labels:
boys,
Connecticut,
girls,
Jack Delano,
sled,
snow
Dec 25, 2008
Christmas Child
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: Martinetti, grandchild
Dec 24, 2008
Nativity
Photo by John Collier.
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: Taos, Christmas
Labels:
boys,
Christmas,
girls,
John Collier,
nativity,
New Mexico
Dec 23, 2008
Home for Christmas
Photo by John Collier.
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: Greyhound, depot, Washington
Labels:
bus,
Christmas,
Greyhound,
John Collier,
Washington D.C.
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
Labels:
Dorothea Lange,
girls,
Idaho,
mail
Dec 21, 2008
Winter In the Country
Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: Maryland, mailboxes
Labels:
mail,
Marion Post Wolcott,
Maryland,
snow
Dec 20, 2008
Let It Snow
Chillicothe, Ohio in 1940. Photo by Arthur Rothstein.
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: snow, auto
Labels:
Arthur Rothstein,
automobiles,
Ohio,
snow
Dec 19, 2008
Home Canning
[photographer not identified]
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: Hansen, preserves
Dec 18, 2008
Milk & Mail
Photo taken by Marion Post Wolcott in March of 1939 or 1940.
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: Vermont, crossroads
Labels:
mail,
Marion Post Wolcott,
milk,
Vermont
Dec 17, 2008
Roughneck
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: oil, worker, Oklahoma
Labels:
men,
oil industry,
Oklahoma,
Roughneck,
Russell Lee
Dec 16, 2008
10 People, 3 Small Rooms
The family lives in what is described as "three small rooms, with no bath...They use an outside toilet shared with five other families." In addition to the eight children in this photo, another is on the way.
(photographer: Russell Lee)
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: two adults, eight children
Labels:
boys,
California,
girls,
large families,
men,
Russell Lee,
San Diego,
women
Dec 15, 2008
More Laundry
"Lititz, Pennsylvania. Mrs. R.W. (Elizabeth) Almoney, forty-seven (center rear), has had eleven children. She works as a gauge inspector at the Animal Trap Company and on Sunday does the washing. Her husband (left) works in the local chocolate factory. Daughter Arline, twenty (right), who also works at the Animal Trap Company, is cooking Sunday dinner. There are three brothers in the service, and one Boy Scout, age thirteen, in the family."
Before birth control was legal, and prior to automatic clothes washers, there was a lot more work - and a lot less play.
Photo taken in 1942 by Marjory Collins.
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: eleven, children, factory
Labels:
large families,
laundry,
Marjory Collins,
men,
Pennsylvania,
women
Dec 14, 2008
Ford Fighter Planes
Photo by Ann Rosener.
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: outer, wing, panel
Labels:
aircraft,
Ann Rosener,
Ford,
men,
Michigan,
World War II
Dec 13, 2008
High Water
This image also brings to mind Johnny Cash's line 'How high's the water, Mama?' in the song "Five Feet High and Rising".
Photo by Arthur Rothstein.
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: Winchester, flood, waters
Labels:
Arthur Rothstein,
flooding,
Shenandoah River,
Virginia
Dec 12, 2008
Gonna Soak Up the Sun
Photo by Esther Bubley, 1943.
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: Arlington, sunbathers
Labels:
Esther Bubley,
sun,
Virginia,
women,
World War II
Dec 11, 2008
Lumberjack
Photo by John Collier.
[American Memory link] to locate this image, use search terms: Indian, woodsman
Labels:
Canada,
First Nations,
Indian,
John Collier,
lumber,
Maine,
men,
pulpwood
Dec 10, 2008
MacKenzie King, Prime Minister
Love the shades.
Taken in Washington, D.C. during a visit by Canada's Prime Minister, MacKenzie King, in 1943.
Photo by Ann Rosener.
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Taken in Washington, D.C. during a visit by Canada's Prime Minister, MacKenzie King, in 1943.
Photo by Ann Rosener.
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to locate this image, use search terms: Prime, Minister, King
Labels:
Ann Rosener,
Canada,
MacKenzie King,
men,
prime minister,
Washington D.C.
Dec 9, 2008
Been Fishing
Labels:
Arthur Rothstein,
Florida,
seafood
Dec 6, 2008
Muscle
Photo by Alfred T. Palmer, 1942.
Labels:
Alfred T. Palmer,
men,
Virginia,
World War II
Dec 5, 2008
More Frogs
Labels:
animals/birds,
Louisiana,
Russell Lee
Dec 4, 2008
Frogs
Labels:
animals/birds,
John Vachon,
Maryland
Dec 3, 2008
Typo
Labels:
Russell Lee,
signs,
Texas
Dec 2, 2008
Dreams
Photographer Howard Liberman's caption observes that "[m]any of the boys will follow their forefathers" and become fishermen themselves.
One wonders how this young's man life actually turned out.
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to locate this image, use search terms: New England, boys
Labels:
Howard Liberman
Dec 1, 2008
Laundry
The collection contains numerous photos depicting the laborious and time-consuming ways in which this task was accomplished prior to the arrival of running water, electricity, and modern appliances.
Photo by Russell Lee.
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to locate this image, use search terms: clothes, washing, Texas
Labels:
Russell Lee
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