Showing posts with label Carl Mydans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carl Mydans. Show all posts

Monday, August 13, 2012

Carl Mydans

 Drying jars at canning time. A house purchased for the Lake of the Ozarks project. Missouri, 1936

 Fair day, Morrisville, Vermont, 1936

 Fair talk, Albany, Vermont, 1936

 Junk, with living quarters close by. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1936

 Miner and mule at American Radiator Mine, Mount Pleasant, 
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, 1936

 Old horseless carriage at gasoline station near Lost River, New Hampshire, 1936

 Parade at the fair, Albany, Vermont, 1936

 School scene at Cumberland Mountain Farms (Skyline Farms) near Scottsboro, Alabama, 1936

Things saved for many a day are confided at the fair, Albany, Vermont, 1936

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Carl Mydans

Some more pics from Carl Mydans, one of the FSA photographers.

 Homeschooling, Westmoreland Homesteads, Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, 1936

 Homestead children coming home from school, Decatur Homesteads, Indiana, 1936

 Marketplace in the French Quarters of New Orleans, New Orleans, 1936

 Negro family in subdivision, Franklin Township, near Lincoln Highway, 
Bound Brook, New Jersey, 1936

Old Vermont carriage and farm family near North Hyde Park, Vermont, 1936

 Packing tomatoes for market at small packing depot at Terry, Mississippi, 1936

 Penderlea Homesteads, North Carolina, 1936

School at Skyline Farms, near Scottsboro, Alabama, 1936

 Style show of the opening of garment factory, Hightstown, New Jersey, 1936

 Woman and child with jars of produce, ca 1936

Women at the annual fair, Morrisville, Vermont, 1936

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Carl Mydans - 1935

Carl Mydans was another Farm Security Administration photographer whose life and career took some dramatic turns, as he and his wife were captured by the Japanese in World War II during his stint as a wartime photojournalist (more about Mydans on Wikipedia).

Tenement kitchen, Hamilton County, Ohio, 1935

Tenement bedroom and kitchen, Hamilton County, Ohio, 1935

Bedroom of relief family, Hamilton County, Ohio, 1935

Women washing clothes, Crabtree Recreational Project, near Raleigh, North Carolina, 1935


Three of the family of nine living in field in rough board covering built on old Ford truck chassis on U.S. Route 70, between Camden and Bruceton, Tennessee, 1935