- scary bridge. Wonder what happened when it flooded. - pepinlachance2
- got washed out silly - fwredelius
Southern U.S. (LOC)
Wolcott, Marion Post,, 1910-1990,, photographer.
Southern U.S.
ca. 1940
1 slide : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Photograph shows a rural settlement.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
Houses
United States--Southern states
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 11671-9 (DLC) 93845501
General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34307
Call Number: LC-USF35-111
Comments and faves
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pepinlachance2 (61 months ago | reply)
Very peacfull and scenic.
KatieHerman (58 months ago | reply)
actually it looks impoverished
jacobC (52 months ago | reply)
What is so impoverished looking about it?
MaWa | BoFaRaH (50 months ago | reply)
very cool.
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Horseshoot (29 months ago | reply)
Yeah, I don't see impoverished, either. Weird.
aumanj (29 months ago | reply)
My mom's home area in VA in some places still look like this. But all of those old houses are abandoned now. Very typical of that time. My grandparents old barn and garage was unpainted like this until the 1990s. Very common for the depression days.
carriechuck@sbcglobal.net (15 months ago | reply)
Looks like where my Father grew up in southeast Tennessee.
GroverH (4 months ago | reply)
Regarding impoverished, notice that the only road is virtually impassible to motor vehicles of the time, mule or horse was the only transportation in and out. See all the utility poles? Of course not, there was no electricity, no telephone, no connection with the outside world. I lived there (Southern Appalachia) from the mid sixties until 1980. Even then, there were pockets -- communities that were as isolated as they had been since the Cherokee Removal (Trail of Tears). That is to say, they had no passable roads, mules were as common as jalopies (or moonshiner's hot rods) where electricity was available it was so new that the people only thought to hang a bare light bulb from the ceiling, No telephones, and while broadcast television was possible, it took a mighty antenna to get a snowy image from Atlanta or Greenville SC. (and nobody could afford either the TV set or the antenna anyway) For my personal experience of "impoverishment," I lived without electricity, telephone, etc from 1975 to 1980, not so much because it wasn't available, but because I could not afford it. My family (wife and two kids) and I recall that period as a time of great richness. We would lie in reclining lawn chairs, sometimes bundled in sleeping bags and observe the stars, or we would hike in the woods, sometimes for extended trips of three to five days, learning about trees, flowers, butterflies, etc. Today we all live in the 21st century with a TV set the size of a barn door, a car that goes 90, THE INTERNET, air conditioning, etc. Am I richer than I was then? Only according to my banker.