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Depression Era Portrait of Florence Owens Thompson
“She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields and birds that the children killed.” —Dorothea Lange, photographer working for the U. S. Resettlement Administration The image above, titled Migrant Mother, has been heralded as … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Farming, Florence Owens Thompson, Great Depression, Migrant Workers, Poverty
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Ruminations on a Hart-Parr 18-36H Tractor (1930)
“It is no longer good business to have a lot of money invested in horse-flesh. . .when you can buy a Hart-Parr ‘Little Devil’ Tractor.” —Hart-Parr Company advertisement slogan from the 1910s In 1897, mechanical engineers Charles W. Hart and … Continue reading
A Snowy Rose Valley Falls
The typically ephemeral and lackluster waterfall at Rose Valley Campground in Ventura County seen here, center frame, as a mere vertical blackened bare spot lost amidst the more eye catching snow-frosted mountain.
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