Old Online Photos

[xoxoxoBruce]

Yale has released 170,00 images taken by the Farm Security Administration, between 1935 and 1945. You've probably seen some of them, I know some have been posted in the Cellar. The name was a bullshit title given to a make work project, for artists and photographers, but the results was fantastic. They documented the last half of the depression and WW II on the home front. Photographs of migrant workers, factories, small towns and farms when anyone who could afford a camera and film processing didn't waste it on these sort of things.

The link http://photogrammar.yale.edu/map/ is an interactive map. There is a ten year slide at the top and you can drag the map like on a Google map.
Click on a spot and a little box pops up saying, "see pictures". If there is no location name above the see pictures it's a blank. But if you move over just a tiny bit and click, you may hit one with a location, then click on the box to see them.

These are some I found;
The Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, MA, is a big deal. The permanent buildings include a big building for each of the New England States, that look more like huge church/mansion, row after row of livestock barns, the Coliseum, half mile paved racetrack and a bunch of smaller buildings. Hundreds of vendors set up tents and trailers. Usually the livestock come from about 15 states, and it runs for ten days in September.

Draft Horses


And spectators. By the time I attended every year thy had returned to the traditional sledge and weights, probably
because it's more fun to watch. Now they use the trailer with sliding weights.


20 years later this would have been me showing my Brown Swiss cattle.


I never saw a Cotton Gin Factory, this started in 1842.


Here's a guy you may have heard of. Notice: I did not crop General Wesson out, I found it cropped.
Oh, and the General is not one of the Smith ands.



So try it, it's a fun way to kill a few hours days.