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Art Simplot and family outside their home in the Wisconsin town of Black River Falls. A Year of Transformation and Resilience 1937 was a year […]

Capturing the Past: Conversations with a Couple from the Turn of the Century In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the art of photography […]

Tobacco Bag Stringing: JOHNSON, MRS. FLOSSIE, a colored woman who resides in Reidsville, North Carolina, with her seven children after being separated from her husband. […]

picture shows four grownups on a lawn enjoying a game of croquet. A dog is sitting in the yard, with a frame home visible in […]

A family of ten, including the younger members, will be resettled on the Ross-Hocking Land Project close to Chillicothe, Ohio.  

Description This family, spanning several generations, is shown together outside their home. Albert J. Ewing, a traveling photographer, captured this image sometime between 1896 and […]

A split-rail fence frames a portrait of four young women and one young guy, who appear to be siblings, sitting against a mountainside. With their […]

Tobacco Bag Stringing: Miss May Brown, 30 years old and single, lives with her parents in Wilkes County, N.C. Her father, aged 60, receives a […]

Life in 1939: A Packinghouse Worker’s Family in Belle Glade, Florida In the heart of Belle Glade, Florida, during the late 1930s, the lives of […]

1939 in Louisiana: Life at the Strawberry Center In 1939, Louisiana was a place of vibrant cultures and diverse communities, each contributing to the rich […]

1946 in West Virginia… Description Ordinary housing—notice the young child tossing trash into the stream. Douglas Mine, Panther, Panther Red Ash Coal Corporation, McDowell County, […]

The Story a Farmer’s Hand Can Tell This is nothing more than a close-up picture of a farmer’s hand, that’s all it is. But, I […]