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Jack Whinery, homesteader, with his wife and the youngest of his five children, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 7 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.
  • donnA said:
    amazing photos, I love seeing how people lived in different times.
  • reybomb said:
    Different they were, man we're panzies in this day and age. Just look at us looking at them from the comfort of our carpeted homes and offices. Makes me want to go live in a shack. Or not; I like temperature control.
  • productive side said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called free and proud, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
  • productive side said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called piece of heaven, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

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?

Team pulling a car out of the mud; the roads near Pie Town, New Mexico are not improved (LOC)

from The Library of Congress