Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Vermont

These photos were taken in Vermont in 1942 by Fritz Henle.

 East Montpelier, Vermont. Charles Ormsbee's son Richard, 
aged five, who tries to help on his father's farm, 1942
  
 East Montpelier, Vermont. Marilyn, daughter of Charles Ormsbee,
is president of her 4-H club, the Montpelier Center Girls, where
she learns how to sew and cook economically and well, 1942
  
 East Montpelier, Vermont. Mrs. Myrtle Ormsbee and Marilyn, mother and daughter of farmer Charles Ormsbee. Mrs. Ormsbee is knitting sweaters for the Red Cross, 1942
  
 East Montpelier, Vermont. The Charles Ormsbee family and 
his widowed mother, Mrs. Myrtle Ormsbee, at dinner, July 1942
  
 West Danville, Vermont. "What else will it be today, Mrs. Metcalf?"
asks Mrs. Hastings, who has clerked in the general store owned
by Mr. and Mrs. Hastings for twenty-nine years, July 1942
  
 West Danville, Vermont. A load of sawdust from the 
lumber mill. The wagon saves gas and rubber, July 1942
  
 West Danville, Vermont. Frank Goss, seventy-one year old farmer, in front of Gilbert S. Hastings's general store and post office reading his mail, July 1942
  
 West Danville, Vermont. Girls from Saint Johnsbury where they are spending a weekend on Joe's Pond, looking over fishing tackle in G. S. Hastings's general store, July 1942
  
West Danville, Vermont. Maynard Clark, fourteen, and Guy Davenport, eleven, reading the air raid instructions posted in Gilbert S. Hastings's post office and general store, July 1942

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Dorothea Lange

 "Pond monkey" channels log raft. Keno, Klamath County, Oregon, Sept 1939
  
 A hitchhiking family waiting along the highway in Macon, Georgia. The father repairs sewing machines, lawn mowers, etc. He is leaving Macon, where a license is required for such work (twenty-five dollars) and heading back for Alabama. July 1937
 
 Abandoned farm of the western Panhandle, 
Cimarron County, Oklahoma, June 1938
  
 Advertisement for current movie in town. Westley, California. 
The child is a flood refugee from southeast Missouri. April 1939
  
 Arkansas girl in migrant camp near Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California. This is an Arkansawyers auto camp, filled almost completely with Arkansawyers recently in California, April 1939
  
 Boys riding freight. West Texas, May 1937
  
 California pea pickers returning to camp after a day's work 
in the field. Near Santa Clara, California, April 1937
  
 Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living 
near Fresno, California, picking cotton, Nov 1936
  
 Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Arrived in California 
June 1936. Mother and three half-grown children; no father. November 1936
  
Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California, November 1936

Monday, September 22, 2014

John Dobree Pascoe

 United States Marines near Pukekohe, 31 March 1943
  
 United States Marines playing cards in New Zealand, ca. 1944
  
 Waka race to entertain United States Servicemen, 
held by Tainui Maori at Ngaruawahia, ca. 1943
  
 Woman worker in a munitions factory, 30 August, 1943
  
 Women celebrating Victory in Europe, Lambton Quay, Wellington, 1945
  
 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps members sunbathing 
while off duty, Godley Head, Lyttelton, Christchurch, January 1943
  
Women's War Service Auxiliary on parade on United Nations Day, 14 June, 1943

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Sunday, September 21, 2014

Russell Lee

 7:45 a.m. Tip Estes' children watch their mother 
make a pie. Near Fowler, Indiana, Mar 1937
  
 7:10 p.m. Tip Estes and family eating dinner. The day's work 
has been finished. Tip Estes has washed up and dinner is served, Mar 1937
  
 7:40 p.m. Tip Estes, hired man, with the youngest of his nine children. After dinner the family sits around until 8-00 or 8-30, when they go to bed. There is no reading matter in the house, Mar 1937
    
 
Tip Estes' children boarding a school bus near Fowler, Indiana, April 1937
   
 A drink on the house. Lumberjacks, proprietor and 
lady attendant in saloon. Craigville, Minnesota, August 1937
  
 A mother and her children, refugees from the 1937 flood, 
encamped at Tent City near Shawneetown, Illinois
  
 A quilting party in an Alvin, Wisconsin, home, April 1937
  
 Agricultural workers wait in the clinic at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers community, Woodville, California, Mar 1942
  
 Child at the FSA Camelback Farms, Phoenix, Arizona, Feb-Mar 1942
  
 Group of colored flood refugees housed in the 
Baptist church at Sikeston, Missouri, Jan 1937

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Lafayette Studio

 Lexington Airport, large group of people standing in front of airplane, 1936
  
 Lexington Junior High School girls, 1934
  
 Liebel Supply Company, Lexington, Kentucky, 1933
  
 Meyers Brothers, group portrait of women, 1942
  
 Mr. & Mrs. Pat Mullendare, wedding reception, 1946
  
 Mrs. C.E. Skinner and children's band, 1935
  
 Mrs. Royce Martin standing next to car with dogs, 1943
  
 Needle Work Guide of America pageant, 1934
  
 People on porch, 1934
  
Pickrell & Craig Company, food brokers, 1933

Friday, September 19, 2014

Randolph Henry High School

Randolph Henry High School in Keyville, Virginia was photographed by Philip Bonn in June 1943.

 Social studies class. Students study in groups of six or eight, each group picking own subject.
  
 Cafeteria. Students don't have much money so they bring 
produce from farms for which they receive tickets.
  
 Eating lunch in cafeteria
  
 First aid group in school dispensary
  
 Girls in entry hall talking before school in the morning. Bulletin board on wall.
  
 Graduation exercises for 123 students
  
 Home economics cottage. Girls learn the art of homemaking, how to sew, 
plan meals, cook and serve, what food to eat, how to entertain.
  
 Home economics cottage. Girls learn to plan, cook 
and serve meals. They usually have a guest.
  
 Interior of vocational shop. Boys learn to repair farm machinery, carpentering and welding.
  
Playing baseball during gym period. Girl replaced 
man teacher who was drafted in the army.