homesteaders

20 photos tagged homesteaders, from 4 members of Flickr Commons.

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Brebner family and their photogenic dog

from Provincial Archives of Alberta

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Swordscookie said:
    Good dog lovely shot.
  • Provincial Archives of Alberta said:
    Front and centre: that dog knows how to steal the attention.
  • James Tworow said:
    I have many photos like this that are simply unmarked so I don't know where they were taken, since I'm acquiring them from non-family sources...
  • Provincial Archives of Alberta said:
    The curse of unidentified photos!
  • James Tworow said:
    You're probably getting donations from a known source... When I acquire photos through different vendors, there is rarely much information with them, if any...

    Here's one I got lucky on, clearly labeled, acquired from a vendor... I have more from the same source...

    The Old Homestead (true vintage style)

Mrs. Bill Stagg with state quilt that she made, Pie Town, New Mexico. A community settled by about 200 migrant Texas and Oklahoma farmers who filed homestead claims ... Mrs. Stagg helps her husband in the field with plowing planting, weeding corn and harv

from The Library of Congress

  • 10 older comments, and then…
  • Donovan Beeson said:
    www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/pietown.html?c... Great article with the history of Pie Town inspired by these photographs.
  • perfgeek said:
    Back before Alask and Hawaii were States.
  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    Photographer Russell Lee: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Lee_(photographer)
  • Rachel @ 2nd Avenue Studio said:
    "helps her husband" do you mean ... works along side her husband in the field, does all the house work and child care alone and still finds time to hand stitch 48 hand embroidered blocks together? astounding! and still we don't know her name, just the name of her husband.
  • Barb said:
    how mad do you think she was when they added Hawaii and Alaska?

Founding a homestead

from Powerhouse Museum

  • covid convict said:
    trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163662868/16780821# - this pic appeared in the Sydney Mail on 4th September, 1907 in a pictorial on the Dorrigo district...see pic on 4th page of link titled 'A Farm of 124 Acres for which in its improved state £2200 was refused'... Some of the other Dorrigo pics that appeared in this issue of the Sydney Mail are also in the PHM's collection, and they're also on the PHM's Flickr photostream...they come up if you click on the 'Sydney Mail, 4th September, 1907' tag I've added...