Just one more porch photographed by John Vachon — this one in Nicholas County, Kentucky, in November 1940.*
What frills attached to such a simple farmhouse and yard.
Her dress goes with the house and her curls with the porch.
*via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Another photo by John Vachon — an old house with a double porch in Houston, Texas, May 1943.* I love the tower room.
You really need to click on the photo and enlarge it to enjoy all the details of this one.
Sharp-eyed commenters on the Library of Congress’s Flickr Commons project noticed that the address on the curb is 1900 Franklin Street. The location is currently a parking lot next to the US Route 59 overpass, close to Minute Maid Park.
*via Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs Collection, Library of Congress.
“Lady tending her flower box, Omaha, Nebraska,” (probably October) 1938, by John Vachon, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
(Click on the image to get a better look.)
The photographer, John Vachon, was on his first solo assignment for the Farm Security Administration in October and November 1938. In addition to taking pictures of rural agricultural projects in Nebraska, he was tasked with recording scenes of life in Omaha for a book by Atlantic magazine writer George Leighton.
There is an interesting discussion of his Omaha work here. His pictures in the city captured “portraits of Depression victims and scenes of comfortable everyday life,” like the one above.
Vachon later worked for Look magazine for 25 years, and he won a Guggenheim fellowship in 1973, two years before his death at age 60.
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