• the older girls have white cuffs on their sleeves - Alex Cheek
  • The girls' dresses look like feedsack fabric or the mother got a deal on it so she made three from the same bolt. - lsmucker2002
  • same barrettes for the two older girls as well as their own feedsack print dresses. - carbonated
  • assumably the girl to the right has a little blue tie at the collar, and I bet the girl to the left has a white-trimmed keyhole buttoned opening in the back. - carbonated
  • homemade dresses from the same bolt of cloth. The blue in the girl's dresses matches the blue of the toddler's dress. Thrifty use of fabric. - marysz
  • My mom used to make all her kids shirts from the same fabric so we would be easy to find in the crowd. Maybe the same for these kids. - Ideaholic
  • Wish I could buy shoes like these today! - jones1313y
  • we mustn't overlook the boys hand knit sweater. - MaryJaneM
  • We should bring hats back! I love this style. - groboski
  • My Mom used to make outfits out of floursacks for my older siblings. I've never heard of feedsacks. - stardust11003

At the Vermont state fair, Rutland (LOC)

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Delano, Jack,, photographer.

At the Vermont state fair, Rutland

1941 Sept.

1 slide : color.

Notes:
 Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
 Vermont State Fair--(1941 :--Rutland, Vt.)
Fairs
Children
United States--Vermont--Rutland

Format: Slides--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-3 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a33924

Call Number: LC-USF35-54

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  1. michi_ka 13 months ago | reply

    how do these photos have better quality than the 1960s?

  2. abriwin 13 months ago | reply


    Probably taken on glass plates, the image is described as being a slide. Slides were fairly large format (at least 2 1/4" square from memory possibly even larger I am sure someone out there can correct me) and the grain as such minimal. it would take a professional level digital camera today to reach the same level of resolution as those old slides.

  3. Kristi (LOC P&P) 12 months ago | reply

    They are amazing photographs, and this is definitely a favorite! The original images are color transparencies (film, not glass), ranging in size from 35 mm Kodachrome slides to 4 x 5 inch transparencies. Kodachrome in particular has extremely good longevity when stored properly, and this collection of film has been in good storage conditions most of its life. You can read a bit more about the collection as a whole from the collection homepage. Check out the links on the left of that page for more.

  4. Monado 4 months ago | reply

    Ah, yes! Life before birth control.

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