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www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/pietown.html?c... Great article with the history of Pie Town inspired by these photographs. This picture is described in detail in the article.

So many are barefoot.

I wonder if that is the teacher leading them? She looks like a child herself.

highly probable that it is a student in charge of them...a town like this would have had a 1 or 2 room school where the older children would be tasked with helping the younger ones learn....most of these kids wouldn't have finished the 7th or 8th grade anyway given that they'd start having to work around the age of 14-15 on the homesteads... as per the shoes....well, this is just coming out of the depression..many folks from that time talk about only getting one pair of shoes a year at christmas and these would be used for shcool and church only..not going to the fair...though they do seem to be in their sunday best even though alot of the material comes from the large flour sacks of the time period....even a pllowcase was used to make one girls outfit.....there are a few store bought items there too.. the ads are because they are at a fair..not at school..

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Funky Wallpaper and other Funky Backdropz, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group. Love it.

Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital 150th anniversary IT’S touched the lives of most Queenslanders in some way but it hasn’t always been smooth sailing at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. Source: www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/royal-brisbane-and...

Brightly coloured recruitment posters encouraged young women to join up and more than 66,000 of them enlisted in the three services – Army, Navy and Air Force. They made up just under 7% of the nearly 1 million Australians who served. Thousands of young Australian women left home to join the new women’s auxiliary services, the: Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service (RANNS) Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) Women’s Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service (RAAFNS) Source: www.ww2places.qld.gov.au/homefront/women-in-the-war

More than 24,000 women joined the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) after it was founded in 1941 to free up men to join fighting units, marking the first time women were permitted to serve in the military. Women who were British subjects aged between 18 and 40 were eligible to enlist and were paid two-thirds of the equivalent male wage for their service. While it was initially thought women would be confined to roles such as typists and cooks, AWAS members ended up serving in army ordnance, artillery, intelligence and signals corps. They carried out clerical and manual work, maintaining transport and equipment crucial to the war effort and driving everything from cars to amphibious vehicles. In 1945, members of the AWAS became the first women to serve overseas in non-medical roles when a posting of 385 women sailed to New Guinea aboard the MV Duntroon. Source: www.sbs.com.au/topics/voices/culture/article/2019/03/12/h...