- the older girls have white cuffs on their sleeves - Alex Cheek
- The girls' dresses look like feedsack fabric or the mother got a deal on it so she made three from the same bolt. - lsmucker2002
- same barrettes for the two older girls as well as their own feedsack print dresses. - carbonated
- assumably the girl to the right has a little blue tie at the collar, and I bet the girl to the left has a white-trimmed keyhole buttoned opening in the back. - carbonated
- homemade dresses from the same bolt of cloth. The blue in the girl's dresses matches the blue of the toddler's dress. Thrifty use of fabric. - marysz
- My mom used to make all her kids shirts from the same fabric so we would be easy to find in the crowd. Maybe the same for these kids. - Ideaholic
- Wish I could buy shoes like these today! - jones1313y
- we mustn't overlook the boys hand knit sweater. - MaryJaneM
- We should bring hats back! I love this style. - groboski
- My Mom used to make outfits out of floursacks for my older siblings. I've never heard of feedsacks. - stardust11003
At the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)
Delano, Jack,, photographer.
At the Vermont state fair, Rutland
1941 Sept.
1 slide : color.
Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.
Subjects:
Vermont State Fair--(1941 :--Rutland, Vt.)
Fairs
Children
United States--Vermont--Rutland
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 11671-3 (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.1a33924
Call Number: LC-USF35-54
Comments and faves
caseyrose, rogweb, INTOXICA PHOTOGRAPHY, lomokev, and 316 other people added this photo to their favorites.
dandlymambly (60 months ago | reply)
I love the look on that girl's face!
hasret_sali (60 months ago | reply)
kizlar grubu diye ben buna derim,,,
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davidflanders (60 months ago | reply)
almost looks like a movie set: how clean cut they all are!
serendipity.rachael [deleted] (60 months ago | reply)
it is amazing to see photos from this era in color! IT does look like a movie set~!
Robert & Kristin (60 months ago | reply)
My wife commented on how the girls are probably wearing homemade dresses. She's very jealous.
Hippie Gal (60 months ago | reply)
It looks as if they're a bit overwhelmed at all the things to see!
My mother told me that back then they would buy their flour in large sacks. These sacks were made of colorful fabric. The mother would save the fabric and then make dresses for the children with it.
rula (60 months ago | reply)
the colors are so vivid. what a lovely picture! and to think, i was just near rutland a couple weeks ago...
My Symbiosis [deleted] (60 months ago | reply)
Possibly younger brother in the center being "protected"? He looks as if he needs to find the restroom.
fotos-de-alejandra [deleted] (60 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Social Documentary Photography & events, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
taylorsevens (60 months ago | reply)
although i love B&W.......old color photo's make the past seem real in a way that B&W cannot.......it is if you were actually there at that moment in time
spring thinking (60 months ago | reply)
I see six sisters, one brother and a mother in this photo. I am also going to guess that this mother might be pregnant with another baby, judging from the way she is holding the little girl in blue. I love the homemade matching dresses. I wonder if they are from feedsacks, as Hippie Gal said, or if Mom splurged on a bolt of fabric to make these?
perfgeek (60 months ago | reply)
The boy is probably lucky his shirt wasn't made from the same fabric!
Stew Stryker (60 months ago | reply)
Great color! I saw the girls' matching dresses and guessed that Mom bought a bolt of the fabric and made all their dresses from it. I had no clue that flour sacks came in bright colors and could be re-used! I'd have to see that.
He Who Must Be Named (60 months ago | reply)
Chances are those dresses were hand made from the same bolt of cloth.
annick vanderschelden (60 months ago | reply)
Look at the gentleman with the hat. He is serious.
DianthusMoon (60 months ago | reply)
I can imagine they each have a few pennies or a nickel and are deciding where or what to spend them on. Reminds me of the Sound of Music when Maria made the children matching clothes from the curtains! The boy is lucky to not have that fabric as mentioned above.
jdavis417 (60 months ago | reply)
Tile: "The last time we seen Pa" or "I told you to slow down on the lemonade"
If Ma woulda' had one more yard of calico, Little Jimmy might have turned out gender confused. Keep yer eyes peeled for a restroom, girls. Lord help me. I cannot stop myself!
adharasavi (60 months ago | reply)
so beautiful !!!
notkenzie (60 months ago | reply)
Where ever she got the fabric it looks like a great way to keep track of you kids in public - go team red!
Ms. A.R. (57 months ago | reply)
"...He looks as if he needs to find the restroom. "
Good eye, My Symbiosis -- he certainly does! Perhaps that's why mom and the girls are all looking in different directions? Hoping to catch a glimpse of which way the facilities might be? Hmmm... I'm looking at the pic as if the scene is happening in present time. Isn't it amazing how a good photo can transport us right into the time and space the participants were experiencing?? It's such a treat that the L.O.C. has made these old treasures available to us here!
littlebigyee (56 months ago | reply)
It looks like there is so much commotion at the state fair, that everybody is looking at something different! I love the color in the children's clothes. It reminds me when my mother used to dress and match my sisters and me in the same outfits.
Cassies grandma (56 months ago | reply)
www.womenfolk.com/quilting_history/feedsacks. htm
Here is an article on feed and flour sacks. I remember there were patterns that called for 5 sacks or whatever. I was quite young but I had feed sack dresses and curtains. There are now reproductions of those fabrics that quilters are very fond of and believe me are pricey. Check out ebay once for them.
madmonk (52 months ago | reply)
I wish Flickr would disable Notes for all photos. Would you scribble all over this photo if you saw it hanging on the wall at the LoC?
dandlymambly (52 months ago | reply)
@madmonk - Notes don't negatively affect the images, nor permanently alter them. Keep your mouse away from the image and the note-boxes go away. Or, view the full size of the photo and again, there are no notes. As well, notesdo add accessibility/usability to photos - by attaching more tags/terms to images that help photos show up when a user does a search.
BreS526 (49 months ago | reply)
So cool yet so strange to see these in color...it gave me chills.
BradKellyPhoto (48 months ago | reply)
The kids in this photograph would be in their 70's right now.
Abi me leib [deleted] (46 months ago | reply)
I can tell you this! Vermonters no longer have such large families, It would have been nice to have seen so much light and so many children have this much fun in colorful setting when I lived there. The average age there is @55 in most villiages
sepanta1104 (46 months ago | reply)
beautiful !!!
Fatima Teresa (46 months ago | reply)
las foto de separada esta lindicimas me gusta mucho
fatima teresa
✈ {felicia.renee} ✈ (43 months ago | reply)
putting these photos in colors makes them even more real, like it could have been today!
Tony Auth (43 months ago | reply)
this shot reminds me of the cult thing that happened last year
odile-odette (36 months ago | reply)
Their matching dresses remind me of The Sound of Music curtain outfits!
~ Ziora ~ traveling ~♥ ~ (34 months ago | reply)
"The Sound of Music curtain outfits!" LOL exactly !!!
hyakoukoune (34 months ago | reply)
ahah, great photo
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aumanj (28 months ago | reply)
I'm reminded of the scene from the movie from 'O Brother, Where art thou?' Where George Clooney's 'kids' are all dressed alike and they are all girls. My mom knitted and made my clothes in the early-mid 70s still. It was still common for Mom's to make their kid's clothes even up till the 70s until mass marketing of everything in the 80s came along. Along with Fast food and obsesity and hormones in all our food products...ughhhh!
sunshine1466 (28 months ago | reply)
Even looking at these precious photos of someone else's family make's you realize how valuable they are!! Life goes by very fast!!! Please don't throw family albums away!!! If you do not want them give them to a relative that does!!! Document in them who these people are. They are neither rich or famous but are "America"!!!! Bless them!!
UncommonGrace (16 months ago | reply)
Six girls and a boy!
And I agree with sunshine1466 -- we were just given a box of photos from my mom's aunt's house. They date from about 1910-1980. Some are of relatives we don't know. But they are treasured. You can never have too many photos of your ancestors' lives.
abriwin (14 months ago | reply)
I guess the boy has to be lucky that his mum didn't make him a pair of shorts from the same material, I guess he could have put up with a shirt in that colour.
The little boots on the baby might have been hand me downs from the boy having said that it could be a boy wearing one of the girls hand me downs?
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stardust11003 (10 months ago | reply)
Could be floursack dresses. My Mom used to make my older siblings clothes out of floursacks.
Éothain (10 months ago | reply)
Great pics!
michi_ka (8 months ago | reply)
how do these photos have better quality than the 1960s?
abriwin (8 months ago | reply)
Probably taken on glass plates, the image is described as being a slide. Slides were fairly large format (at least 2 1/4" square from memory possibly even larger I am sure someone out there can correct me) and the grain as such minimal. it would take a professional level digital camera today to reach the same level of resolution as those old slides.
Kristi (LOC P&P) (7 months ago | reply)
They are amazing photographs, and this is definitely a favorite! The original images are color transparencies (film, not glass), ranging in size from 35 mm Kodachrome slides to 4 x 5 inch transparencies. Kodachrome in particular has extremely good longevity when stored properly, and this collection of film has been in good storage conditions most of its life. You can read a bit more about the collection as a whole from the collection homepage. Check out the links on the left of that page for more.