History in Photos: John Vachon

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Friday, April 3, 2015

John Vachon

Girl in the picket line at the King Farm strike. Morrisville, Pennsylvania, August 1938

Picket line at the King Farm strike. Near Morrisville, Pennsylvania, August 1938

Playground scene at the Irwinville School, Georgia, May 1938

Rural schoolchildren, Minnesota, September 1939

Rural schoolroom, Wisconsin, September 1939

Schoolteacher and children, Irwinville School, Georgia, May 1938

State capitol from backyard, Des Moines, Iowa, May 1940

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

John Vachon

Employees at Mid-Continent Refinery, Tulsa, Oklahoma, ca. 1943

Grocery store, Mt. Orab, Ohio, Route 74, 1942-43

House, Houston, Texas, May 1943

Man shovelling ears of dried corn from wagon through feed store window, 1942-43

Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

John Vachon

Children living on the outskirts of Washington, DC, September 1937

Crowd at Father Walsh's carnival. Trenton, New Jersey, August 1938

Man and dogs in front of grocery store, Robinson, Illinois, May 1940

Migrant children at nursery school, Berrien County, Michigan, July 1940

Migrant girls working in cherry canning plant, Berrien County, Michigan, July 1940

National Association of Manufacturers sign, Dubuque, Iowa, April 1940

Ohio Street bathing beach. Chicago, Illinois, July 1941

Pawnshops and secondhand stores in Gateway District,

Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 1939

Schoolchildren at Greenhills, Ohio, October 1938

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

John Vachon

Bookshop window, Chicago, Illinois, July 1940

Boy hopping freight train, Dubuque, Iowa, April 1940

Children saluting flag. Irwinville School, Georgia, May 1938

Farm boys at Irwinville Farms, Georgia, May 1938

Fourth of July parade, Watertown, Wisconsin, 1941

Fourth of July roadside stand near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1941

FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrower

with calf, Grant County, Illinois, May 1940

Greasing plow point for the winter. Cavalier County, North Dakota, Oct 1940

Leading horses to the barn, Grundy County, Iowa, April 1940

Oldest Sauer boy cranking family car. Cavalier County, North Dakota, Oct 1940

Friday, June 27, 2014

John Vachon - Color Photos

Children playing by road near school house, Kansas, 1942-43

Eagle Fruit Store and Capital Hotel, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942

Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942

Seed and feed store, Lincoln Nebraska, 1942

Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943

Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943

Rural school girl, San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943

Thursday, February 14, 2013

John Vachon

Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina, 1938

[<sarcasm>the "good old days"</sarcasm>]

Wife and child of FSA tenant purchase borrower, Crawford County, Illinois, 1940

Wife of resettled farmer, Roanoke Farms, North Carolina, 1938

Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943

Monday, August 27, 2012

John Vachon

Meeker County, Minnesota. Music supplied by two Meeker County farmers

for dance at crossroads store, 1942

Migrant girls working in cherry canning plant, Berrien County, Michigan, 1940

Mildred Irwin, entertainer in saloon at North Platte, Nebraska. She entertained for twenty years in Omaha before coming to North Platte, 1938

Mr. and Mrs. Dyson, aged FSA borrowers. Saint Mary's County, Maryland, 1940

Parents of five children, migratory fruit workers from Arkansas.

Berrien County, Michigan, 1940

Spearing tobacco, Wisconsin, 1939

Steelworker and family. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, 1941

Street scene, Washington, DC, 1937

Waiting for street car, Chicago, 1940

High school jazz band. Sikeston, Missouri, 1940

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