Steps for crossing a barbed wire fence, Sheridan County, Montana, November 1937, by Russell Lee, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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The Sunday porch: Raleigh County
A home in Raleigh County, West Virginia, May 1996, a 35 mm slide by Lyntha Scott Eiler for the Coal River Folklife Project and the American Folklife Center, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The Sunday porch: New Jersey
Back porch, possibly in Northwest Manville, New Jersey, February 1936, by Carl Mydans for the U.S. Resettlement Administration, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Vintage landscape: Charleston, S.C.
Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina, between 1920 and 1926, by Arnold Genthe, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
The Sunday porch: dance floor
notes of an old music pace the air. . .*
“Women and children on a porch,” in Georgia, Florida, or the Bahamas, 1935, from the Lomax Collection in the Library of Congress.
The snapshot photographs of the Collection document the expeditions by John Avery Lomax, Ruby Terrill Lomax, and Alan Lomax — in the 1930s and 40s — to record and preserve the folk music and folklore of the southern United States and the Bahamas for the Library of Congress.
*From “A Poem Beginning with a Line by Pindar” by Robert Duncan.
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