The photos, capturing life in the then-48 states, show women working at plane plants, farmers surveying property and fairgoers having rousing fun. These are not war photos. The are images of the American lifestyle at home prior to and during World War II. Several of the images, which were gathered by the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, provide a glimpse of the quaint Vermont State Fair, which was held in Rutland in 1941.
In the above photo, Jack Delano captured the clouds hovering above farms near Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine. (Click on the image to view a bigger picture.) I used to live in Caribou and can report that it hasn't changed much since this photo was taken.
You can read more in an article by Christine Roberts in the New York Daily News at http://goo.gl/n7zcG.
The 1,600 color photographs are available at http://goo.gl/kpL8D.
My thanks to newsletter reader Larry Head for telling me about the photos.
