Can you imagine buying a new Chevrolet car for $659? You could in 1940. Of course, that was still quite a bit of money at the time when you consider minimum wage was only 30 cents per hour. From Life Magazine December 11, 1939 Here are some other typical prices for common items. Milk: 34 […]
Franklin Buchanan, a hero of the Battle of Mobile Bay, Alabama (1800-1874) Baltimore, Maryland Franklin Buchanan was born Auchentorlie, a family estate near Baltimore, Maryland on September 17, 1800. He was the fifth and third son of Dr. George Buchanan, a physician, and Laetitia McKan, the daughter of a prominent Philadelphia family. He obtained a […]
After Pearl Harbor, Japanese-Americans were relocated to internment camps for the duration of WWII. They were considered enemy aliens even though many had lived in America for years. Photographer Russell Lee took photographs of their relocation in April and May of 1942 in the pictures below. (See Japanese for additional photographs of this internment. Reception camps were […]
While economic woes made life difficult in Georgia during the 1930’s, some still had a sense of humor and strong religious convictions as revealed by the road signs below. Photographed by Dorothea Lange 1937 Photographed by Marion Post Walcott 1939 Try a trial Membership by clicking the link below. Join Amazon Prime […]
Greene County, Georgia suffered in the Depression years and many had difficulty finding work. Life was much simpler as seen by these pictures taken by Marion Post Wolcott in the spring of 1939. The desriptions are hers. Shoeing a mule in Greene County, 1939 RIBBON OF LOVE: 2nd edition – A Novel Of Colonial America: Book one […]
The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 made military and political leaders suspect that Imperial Japan was preparing a full-scale attack on the West Coast of the United States. There were many Japanese-American living in the area and the U. S. Government became increasingly concerned about where the loyalties lie. After much debate, […]
Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange’s photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography. She visited Georgia in 1937 and below are some of her remarkable photographs. Farmer who has just moved into impoverished Greene County, Georgia from the […]
Georgia had some very palatial antebellum mansions as evidenced by the following photographs taken by Dorothea Lange taken in July 1937, many of these are in Greene County, Georgia. Please comment in the Reply section below if you can identify any of the beautiful mansions not labeled. Greene County, Georgia was formed on February 3, […]
When Marion Post Wolcott visited Greene County, Georgia in May 1939, she discovered many abandoned houses, many which appear to be quite large and grand at one time. If these houses could talk, imagine what stories they would tell! Here are a few that have seen better days. I wish I knew who lived in them. The […]
A surprise hurricane in July, 1943 that hit Texas was considered at the time the worst since the 1915 Galveston hurricane. The tropical storm developed over the northeastern Gulf of Mexico on July 25 and strengthened while it tracked westward. The Old Southern Hotel 1943 Texas City Library.org Information and reports about the hurricane were […]
