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.