Charles Fenno Jacobs

 Southington, Connecticut. A one-room school, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. Southington school children 

staging a patriotic demonstration, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. Southington school children 

staging a patriotic demonstration, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. The family of Ralph Hurlbut. A Sunday dinner honoring Corporal Robert Hurlbut, twenty-one, home on his first furlough from the army, May 1942

  

Southington, Connecticut. The Memorial Day parade moving down the main street. The small number of spectators is accounted for by the fact that the town's war factories are in operation.

Charles Fenno Jacobs

 Southington, Connecticut. Bocci, an Italian game somewhat like bowling, 

is another popular outdoor sport in Southington, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. Dancing at the Old Mill, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. Instruction in dress making, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. Kitchen scene, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. Members of the youth drum corps, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. Mrs. Ethel Oxley, in the drugstore which she runs on the town's main street. Her family has had a business on this same corner for more than 200 years. May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. School children, half of Polish and 

half of Italian descent, at a festival in May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. School class, May 1942

  

Southington, Connecticut. School girl studying, May 1942

Charles Fenno Jacobs

More of Fenno Jacobs' photos of Southington, Connecticut.

 School children in Southington, Connecticut performing the Bellamy salute in May 1942

[This extremely creepy form of patriotic display was abandoned in favor 

of the right hand on the heart salute sometime in 1942, when people 

realized that the Bellamy salute was a lot like the Nazi salute]

 Southington, Connecticut. A bridge party, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. A group of children, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. A group of women rolling bandages 

and preparing surgical dressings, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. A highlight in the town's life 

is the annual girls' glee club recital, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. At Beecher Street School, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. At Beecher Street School, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. At Beecher Street School, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. At Beecher Street School, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. At Beecher Street School, May 1942

  

Southington, Connecticut. At Beecher Street School, May 1942

[interesting to have a bw and color shot of virtually the same scene]

Amusement Park

Charles Fenno Jacobs was recruited for the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit in World War II. He spent part of May 1942 in Southington, Connecticut, photographing home-front life in "an American town." These are part of that series.