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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 11, 2009

World Series

Listening to a World Series game on the radio. Utah, 1940.

Photo by Russell Lee.

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[American Memory link]

Labels: baseball, radio, Russell Lee, Utah

January 6, 2009

New Shoes

The caption accompanying this image reads: "Mormon farmer shoeing a horse, Santa Clara, Utah." The collection contains several similar photos from different parts of the country.

Photo by Russell Lee, 1940.

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[American Memory link]
to locate this image, use search terms: horse, shoe

Labels: farmer, horses, Mormon, New Shoes, Russell Lee, Utah

December 19, 2008

Home Canning

locate this image on the American Memory website by using search terms HANSEN and PRESERVES

Mrs. Hansen, a farmer's wife in Utah, is seen with her store of home-grown, home-preserved fruits and vegetables. This photo was taken in 1940 - an era in which housewives would can 500 quarts a year to feed their families during the winter.

[photographer not identified]

[American Memory link]

to locate this image, use search terms: Hansen, preserves

Labels: Home Canning, preserves, Utah, woman, women