Month: June 2024

Caption: Shack owned by a strawberry farmer in Hammond, Louisiana.

Albert J. Ewing, a traveling photographer, captured this image of six small children posing in a field with a toy dining set and table, sometime […]

The 14-child H.W. Hilborn family sits and stands on the steps of their Portal, North Dakota, house. One of the guys on the ground is […]

The caption of the photographer Cincinnati’s Sixth Street Market has young chicken vendors. Heyman Mormer, age nine, 732 Kenyon Ave. Willie Mormer, 12, of 732 […]

Moving soybean hay to the barn at the Lake Dick Project in Arkansas.

The last surviving former slave in the region is Nancy Bradford. Born on January 4th, 1851, she worked as a nurse for a family in […]

The Conner family is seen outside their home in Gatlinburg’s Glades neighborhood. (L to R) Lona Conner McClure (1890–1976), Ida Etter Conner King (1885–1951), and […]

A couple sits on a bench outside a church.

  In the summer of 1908, the Smith family of Kansas embarked on a journey emblematic of the American pioneer spirit. With their life’s belongings […]

Tennessee’s Claiborne County, 1940s–1950s… Picture of a little child comforting a weeping infant. The unidentified girl in the picture is smiling and cradling a baby […]

The caption of the photographer Hyman Bachwald, New York, 167 Allen Street. both epileptic and neurotic. Before being married, Mother worked in a factory, and […]

A man and his daughter are sitting on a bed outside in the Mays Avenue camp under a bridge. The Oklahoma City area…