Feb 18th, 2020 : No Man’s Land
Part of FDR’s New Deal during the Great Depression was the Farm Security Administration helping rural Americans
struggling to keep their farms going.Included in the program was to photograph participants showing their plight and progress. I suspect it was to hush critics wanting to know exactly where the money went too but it resulted in a hoard of hundreds of thousands of photographs documenting the depression in America. Shorpy brings us one of those photographs with the title, No Man’s Land. http://cellar.org/img/SHORPY.jpg Quote:
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I don't know who shorpy is, but that sure looks like Sigourney Weaver driving that tractor.
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Did you click the link, everyone should know Shorpy.
Maybe she's Ms Weaver's grandmother. |
Goddamnitalltohell, Bruce, that is another website that could cost days or weeks.
NSFB&W? Autumn Leaves: https://www.junipergallery.com/sites...?itok=1lNWL2yG |
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What, Shorpy is only 600 pages of expandable pictures with a short explanation of what, where, who, how, and sometimes why.
The name Shorpy comes from "Shorpy Higginbotham, a 'greaser' on the tipple at Bessie Mine, of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. in Alabama. Said he was 14 years old, but it is doubtful. Carries two heavy pails of grease, and is often in danger of being run over by the coal cars." By the way Grandma Weaver is driving a McCormick-Deering tractor. |
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