Going to town on Saturday afternoon, Greene Co., Ga. (LOC)

Delano, Jack,, photographer.

Going to town on Saturday afternoon, Greene Co., Ga.

1941 May

1 slide : color.

Notes:
 Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
 Carriages & coaches
African Americans
Country life
United States--Georgia--Greene County

Format: Slides--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-10 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a33874

Call Number: LC-USF35-91

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    RichardBH, bootsartemis, Michal Osmenda, wa-nita, and 241 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. bosetsu (60 months ago | reply)

    Just a few miles down the road from here. The land still looks much like this, but with more trees. It's odd to see such an old photo that (other than the horse and buggy) could've been taken yesterday on just about any rural road a few miles from here.

  3. meateor (60 months ago | reply)

    It's a shame there are JPG compression artifacts on these photos. And maybe some unsharp mask artifacts as well? Hey government worker, wake up.

  4. Mjr. Phule (60 months ago | reply)

    Check the Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a33874 for the link to the original LOC page for this. From there you can get the 42MB TIFF if you really feel the quality of this isn't up to snuff.

  5. dentist_tx (60 months ago | reply)

    Thank you so much for engaging the Library of Congress in the new age of photo sharing. It is much appreciated by this citizen and I'm sure by many others. The LOC is one of the few stops in Washington I have yet to visit, and this gives me a window into what I've been missing. I can't wait to see the real thing next time I'm in DC.

  6. roderickbodine (60 months ago | reply)

    There is no sense of motion in the photo. The cart appears to be stopped. Perhaps for photographic reasons?

  7. Dougs2007 (60 months ago | reply)

    nice sharp photograph

  8. m-oo (60 months ago | reply)

    I like that there is no motion. When I first saw the photo, I had a feeling of stopping time - not just in a photography sense, but in a completely surreal way.

    Also, it looks like a jockey on the left...

  9. ammodramus88 (60 months ago | reply)

    The colors of the clothing on the folks in the cart are interesting: orange to purple to black. Plus the colors of a beautiful spring day.

  10. tofu_minx (60 months ago | reply)

    the warm sun hits their attire...
    illuminating the beautiful colors from dyed hemp ..
    a careless trip to the city it was...

  11. ericeberg (60 months ago | reply)

    i'm from greene county, and like bosetsu said, it mostly looks the same to this day. there is beautiful country there.

  12. taz or be tazzed (60 months ago | reply)

    Whoever decided to do this with the Library of Congress' pictures is amazing and deserves a chunky pay rise. I visited the Library of Congress from London and joined. Great staff, amazing place, it sounds ludicrous, but I think it's one of the wonders of the world.

  13. tsevis (59 months ago | reply)

    Great photo!

  14. Pleroma (59 months ago | reply)

    Same trio different day?

    www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/217 8272341/

  15. Jean Knowles (59 months ago | reply)

    There are four people in the wagon -- two in the front and two in the rear seat. The hat of the fourth person is just visible between the two figures on the right. They are the same four, in the same outfits, as shown in the link above.

  16. Pleroma (59 months ago | reply)

    They are!

  17. Ericbronson's Photography (59 months ago | reply)

    Have a nice day!

  18. rusewcrazy (59 months ago | reply)

    This is wonderful. I love this peek into their lives, the colors of the outfits, the hats, the carriage. Awesome project!

  19. Pleroma (59 months ago | reply)

    Yes - me too - but I have a slightly uncomfortable sense of being a voyeur!

  20. SeLuSaVa (59 months ago | reply)

    Awesome! Great shot! Very nice!!!!!!!!!!

  21. Laura Mae Noble (59 months ago | reply)

    Maybe the cart isn't moving because they are pulled over to the side of the road, waiting for a car to pass. Notice that the road is paved. It could have been a racial disparity, where blacks still drove mule-pulled buggies, because they couldn't afford cars.. or it could just be that this particular family still traveled that way by choice. In any case, I doubt the photo was staged, or that they were stopping for photographic reasons. It looks like a simple act of highway courtesy, because they were moving slowly.

  22. Martin Gunawan (59 months ago | reply)

    classic shot! like it!

  23. Cem Arslan Photography (58 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Foto Roman, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

  24. Muddy LaBoue (58 months ago | reply)

    My mother is 81 years old. She remembers very well traveling by horse & buggy, though she also remembers sitting on the rumble seat of an automobile as a toddler at her father's funeral in the mid- to late- 1920's. How the world has changed!

  25. Adriano Aquino OLD [deleted] (58 months ago | reply)

    Great job! Congratulations! I wanted that there was a work in Brazil like that one that you are doing, putting his photos here in the Flickr.

  26. carbonated (58 months ago | reply)

    I just realized that this photograph is on the cover of the Spring 2007 issue of The Southern Literary Journal--not in color, though. Sepia-toned black and white; boy did they miss out.

  27. rjones0856 (51 months ago | reply)

    1 minor note: that's not a buggy, it's a basic buckboard work wagon.
    The plank seats across the top are removable for hauling stuff during the week. More versatile than a buggy, and a lot less comfortable.

  28. The Library of Congress (50 months ago | reply)

    rjones0856: Thanks for your comment. We'll fix the subject descriptor in our source record and reload the description.

  29. getafacap (49 months ago | reply)

    q buena foto

  30. zyrcster (46 months ago | reply)

    This image has been used in the indicommons.org post: Black History across the Commons - Part 2


  31. R1CARD0 (45 months ago | reply)

    fascinating

  32. Duque2010 (45 months ago | reply)

    Most beautiful! Great site this one !

  33. nicoletozier (43 months ago | reply)

    im so confussed are these pictures actually from the 30's and 40's or did you take them and put them in a setting??

  34. kchi (LOC P&P) (43 months ago | reply)

    nicoletozier: This photograph was taken in May 1941.

  35. isol2 (42 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The best moment., and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    Muy bonito documento

  36. Smithsonian Institution (35 months ago | reply)

    Good morning,

    We published a blog post about a gallery created by a Flickr member using this photo. You can see it here - blog.photography.si.edu/2010/02/10/what%e2%80 %99s-not-to-...

    Best,

    Effie, the Smithsonian

  37. zabedin54 (31 months ago | reply)

    I enjoy the photo and comments.Things might have changed somewhere but remained the same old ones elsewhere.
    But thinking about the old time and events is refreshing.
    It means a lot!

  38. Arty Smokes (deaf mute) (29 months ago | reply)

    Nice.
    --
    Found in a search. (?)

  39. This photo was invited and added to the Original Film Stills and Publicity shots group.

  40. Norskejenta1 [deleted] (14 months ago | reply)

    Beautiful Photo of the Past. Lots of work for the Sweet People from way back then. Just to get ready to go to town or Church it was lots of work.

  41. The Daring Librarian (5 months ago | reply)

    Not ludicrous at all! It *IS* one of the greatest libraries in the world! It is both generous and progressive to ALL!
    Gwyneth Jones
    The Daring Librarian

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