The Sunday porch: Plaquemines Parish, La.

“Mother of three soldiers,” Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana,  June 1943, by John Vachon, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.


The three Blue Star service flags in the window indicate that the family had three sons fighting in WWII.

The Sunday porch: Chanute, Kansas

Front porch, Chanute, Kansas, November 1940, by John Vachon for the U.S. Office of War Information, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The Sunday porch: concert

Children of Dalton McLeod, Fuquay Springs (now Fuquay Varina), North Carolina, September 17, 1935, by Arthur Rothsteinvia New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Their father was a sharecropper and the house was new, built under the New Deal Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration).

The Sunday porch: healthful rest

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Sleeping porch, Toronto, October 1913, via Department of Health Collection (Fonds 200, Series 372), City of Toronto Archives.

Judging from two other photos in the same collection, sleeping porches were being promoted as a way to cut the risk of contracting tuberculosis.