• It's a handyman's dream home, folks. - ajaxofsalamis
  • Probably a bird, no? - J. Navarro
  • chicken or rooster - Kathy Harrison
  • So much for the Chem Track Conspiracy! No Jets back then! - joneckbone
  • Texas chainsaw!!! - edvia6
  • Places like this still are found across the U.S. countryside. One example:
    check Flickr for 'abandoned farms, North Dakota.' Large farms 'ate up' small farms leaving houses and out-buildings behind. - crippenraymond
  • The chimneys of this kind are distinctive of the South. - crippenraymond
  • Duh. It's a satellite dish. How else are you supposed to get internet way out here in the sticks? - space_LION
  • Those are cirrus clouds - Rufflefeather

Cabin in Southern U.S. (LOC)

Wolcott, Marion Post,, 1910-1990,, photographer.

Cabin in Southern U.S.

ca. 1940

1 slide : color.

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

Subjects:
 Cabins
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.1a34312

Call Number: LC-USF35-131

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    Hippie Gal, mystik17_1998, Scarlett Design, Mathieu Struck, and 95 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. atdakore (61 months ago | reply)

    so why are these slides photographed with the sinar, rather than scanned? They look like they could all do with some saturation.
    I know they're old photos, but imagine what could be done to remember the time and how colorful it truly was

  3. Data Wrangler (61 months ago | reply)

    Is that a chicken on the roof?

  4. Filmann (61 months ago | reply)

    atdakore

    Possibly because a 'slide duplicator' is the native format of slides. Light is suppose to go through a slide once, not through the slide to be reflected back through the slide THEN recorded.

    Also, for a slide to be scanned it needs removed from the slide holder. I know these slides LOOK as though they have been removed from their card but that is something we can not be sure of unless we see cog holes.

    Also a slide duplicator allows the photographing of film left in strips, or that have been mounted in cards, or unmounted single frames.

    I have downloaded numerous TIFFs and I am impressed at the clarity and sharpness.

    Also, ALL these slides need doctored? ALL need more 'saturation'? That makes me want to laugh! Hate to tell you but not everything is colorful. Not all grass is Kelly Green. Or mayhaps your monitor needs calibrated.

    I've looked throught he first 89 pages of this archive and I have to say that overall I have been reminded of the fullness and richness of transparency films.

  5. He Who Must Be Named (61 months ago | reply)

    Looks like a turkey buzzard on the roof. We get flocks of them in Southern Ohio

  6. azure elixir (60 months ago | reply)

    wonder if the photographer was at all fearful of the hermit within

  7. fritzhayek (59 months ago | reply)

    Fantatstic

  8. spookyfoto (55 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Decayed yet Hauntingly Beautiful, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  9. J. Navarro (48 months ago | reply)

    that little bird right there (possibly a chicken) is the owner of the house...... that would be awesome!

  10. aumanj (29 months ago | reply)

    Love this old house too. My great grandparents old house in NC from that time period looked almost exactly like this. No one painted their house due to depression times. I love seeing this.

  11. This photo was invited and added to the Once was home group.

  12. brealytrent (20 months ago | reply)

    I wonder what the house and surrounding land looked like in it's prime.

  13. This photo was invited and added to the HISTORIC IMAGES group.

  14. BillsPix (18 months ago | reply)

    I saw many of this type of house in rural eastern NC back in 50's. Most are long gone as the people have moved off the land and into towns and cities.

  15. mswnana (2 months ago | reply)

    That looks like a guinea on the roof to me.

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