Sunday afternoon on the front porch, Vincennes, Indiana, July 1941, by John Vachon, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Nice striped socks.
The Sunday porch: Vincennes, Indiana
Tag: 1940s
Oswego, N.Y.
“A citizen working on Sunday morning in the victory garden he has made on the edge of the street,” Oswego, New York, June 1943, by Marjory Collins, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (all photos here).
“Reports estimate that by 1944, between 18-20 million families with victory gardens were providing 40 percent of the vegetables in America,” according to Smithsonian Gardens.
Memorial Day
“Decorating a soldier’s grave in one of the Negro sections on Memorial Day [1943],” Arlington Cemetery, Virginia, by Esther Bubley, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The graves of service members were segregated by race until 1948.
The flower seller, Ontario
Plant seller at the Hamilton Farmers’ Market, 1946, by J. Morris, via Local History & Archives Hamilton (Ontario) Public Library Commons on flickr.
There are more photos of the market here.
Life in gardens: California
A repeat “Life in” from 2013. . .
I love this photo by Russell Lee, * of a May 1942 Turlock, California, backyard. (Unfortunately, it’s not very sharply focused.) The caption, possibly by the photographer, reads:
Housewife waters the lawn. All garden furniture and barbecue pit were made by her husband; about one out of every three houses in this town has such an arrangement in the backyard, and during the summer months people eat and spend many hours in their yards.
I particularly like the rolling sofa thing with the awning. Turlock is located in central California between Modesto and Merced. Continue reading “Life in gardens: California”
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