The Sunday porch: Windsor, Vermont

Back porches of apartment houses in Windsor, Vermont, 1941, by Jack Delano, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The NAMCO Block* was built between 1920 and 1922 for the workers of the National Acme Company, the town’s main employer in the early 20th century. The building now has a place on the National Register of Historic Places.


*72 apartments.

The card game

“Untitled,” via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

In the Library’s online catalogue, this picture appears among U.S. Farm Security Administration photos taken by Jack Delano on dairy farms in New Hampshire and Vermont in August 1941.

Cortland, New York

“Cast-iron fountain piece originally from Milan, Italy [ca. 1890], on the lawn of a house in Cortland, New York,” September 1940, by Jack Delano, via (and here) Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Vintage landscape: white fence

white fence, white town, Library of CongressPicket fence and view of Stonington, Connecticut, November 1940, by Jack Delanovia Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

The image was taken for the U.S. Farm Security Administration on the then new Kodachrome color transparency film.

The Sunday porch: Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico, Library of CongressPuerto Rico or the Virgin Islands, winter 1941/42, by Jack Delano, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.