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From the Great Depression to World War II - photos from the American Memory collection

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.

January 9, 2009

Hot Peppers

Chili peppers drying in the sun. Hung from an adobe building in New Mexico.

Photo by Russell Lee, 1940.

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[American Memory link]

Labels: adobe, New Mexico, peppers, Russell Lee

December 29, 2008

Swing Your Partner

to locate this image on the American Memory website use search terms NEW, SQUARE and DANCE

Square dancing in New Mexico, 1940.

Photo by Russell Lee.

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[American Memory link]

to locate this image, use search terms: new, square, dance

Labels: dance, dancing, girl, girls, music, New Mexico, party, Russell Lee, square dance, woman, women

December 24, 2008

Nativity

to locate this image on the American Memory website use search terms TAOS and CHRISTMAS

Christmas Eve, in the church. Taos, New Mexico, 1942.

Photo by John Collier.

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[American Memory link]

to locate this image, use search terms: Taos, Christmas

Labels: angels, boy, boys, Christmas, girl, girls, John Collier, nativity, New Mexico