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From the Great Depression to World War II - photos from the American Memory collection
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DONNA LAFRAMBOISE aka TripodGirl The American Memory collection contains more than 162,000 images taken between 1935 and 1944 by government-hired photographers. If you were to look at 100 of them per day, every day, you'd need more than four years to view them all. As a photographer, I consider these images nothing short of wondrous. This blog showcases some of them. |
Mailboxes on a Maryland highway, 1940.Labels: mail, mail box, Marion Post Wolcott, Maryland, snow, Winter in the Country
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A crossroads near Woodstock, Vermont. Cans of milk left by farmers were collected by truck and brought into the city.Labels: crossroads, mail, Marion Post Wolcott, milk, Vermont
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The collection contains hundreds of photos taken in nursery schools/day care centers from one end of America to the other. Some of the loveliest images record the quietest moments.
The above three images are from an Arizona nursery school. They were taken by Russell Lee, in April 1940.
Belle Glade, Florida. Feb. 1941. (Taken by Marion Post Wolcott)
Woodville, California. March 1942. (Russell Lee)
The above photo was taken in Feb. 1942, in Harlingen, Texas, by Arthur Rothstein. During the same month he shot these final three in Sinton, Texas:
Labels: Arthur Rothstein, day care, Marion Post Wolcott, nursery schools, Russell Lee
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