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Cutting the pies and cakes at the barbeque dinner, Pie Town, New Mexico Fair (LOC)

can't wait
Chowing!!!
What is the woman dishing out? Some sort of puddin'?
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applesauce.
This takes the cake! Four Layers high!
Cutting the pies and cakes at the barbeque dinner, Pie Town, New Mexico Fair (LOC) by The Library of Congress.
Lee, Russell,, 1903-, photographer.

Cutting the pies and cakes at the barbeque dinner, Pie Town, New Mexico Fair

1940 Oct.

1 slide : color.

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

Subjects:
Baked products
Fairs
Barbecues
United States--New Mexico--Pie Town

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 11671-24 (DLC) 93845501

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

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34137

Call Number: LC-USF35-358 
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donovanbeeson  Pro User  says:

www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/pi etown.html?c...
Great article with the history of Pie Town inspired by these photographs.
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Shuey Nio says:

People will say how unhealthy the food was back then...but you don't see obese people in these photos.

Could it be this was a time before our food was injected with so many chemicals?
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Vagabond Jewelry  Pro User  says:

could it be that they couldn't afford to eat regularly?
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eneriyma  Pro User  says:

This is one of my favorite Russell Lee photos.
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Charlotte (busy and going mad...I think)  Pro User  says:

Pie Town, I want to move there.

What a beautiful photo.
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Lú_  Pro User  says:

This photograph is featured in the Indicommons.org post Labor Day.

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