Destitute Missouri drought refugees… a family of five with no money, a sick baby and a broken down car, alongside US Highway 99, near Tracy, In San Joaquin County, California 1937 Photo by Dorothea Lange
I always hate when people put the baby or the kids on the traffic side of the shoulder… but I guess they’re doing it to be seen, so someone will stop to help. Still scary.
But I can tell you this much… after she met a few dustbowl refugee families on the road, and took their pictures, Dorothea Lange brought their portraits to a San Francisco newspaper.
Their publication led to some of the first government aid for migrant camps.
She then left a successful career as a portrait photographer to work documenting poverty, instead, for the Farm Security Administration. This is one of those FSA photographs.
I’m sure as a woman in the 1930s, she didn’t make a lot of money for it
She took hundreds of pictures of abject poverty…. migrant workers, itinerant families. She talked to them and wrote down their stories, and captioned her pictures with the details. Some said she was the first person to take any interest in them.
Ansel Adams produced a book of her images that brought awareness to much of the country. Away from the west coast, people didn’t really know
There were something like a quarter million people added to the California population who were fleeing drought and disaster in other states, having heard that everyone was rich out here…. They begged for work along every highway.
Could she personally feed them all? Give them all enough money to make a difference? Could you? Do you?
She left her studio behind because she felt drawn to showing their plight… She eventually left her husband, and married an equally concerned professor who joined her, interviewing her subjects and writing about poverty.
They’re considered directly responsible for a lot of programs to help them.
Both of my sides came from middle America and moved to California. In addition to picking and packing fruit, they did share-cropping farming, among many other jobs. Helped a lot of people who were worse off than they were. Drove 36 hours straight to pick up family who were destitute. I’ll bet your stories are fascinating as well.
You’ve gotta know the girl…. we all have different preferences.
For instance, #13, hanging around my old high school, would be pretty silly. Not only is the school 2,000 miles from me, but I graduated decades ago, and I believe it was demolished a few years later.
And sorry, but #11, having feet, probably isn’t gonna do, on its own..
Then again… I don’t require #4, honestly…. And sometimes #5 is enough.
Be careful … if you try #14 nowadays, I’m not the only “girl’ who might call the police.
Actually, I’m pretty fond of #12, when it comes right down to it.
It especially wouldn’t hurt to be Cary Elwes. But it’s okay if you’re not. I’m no Robin Wright either.
My wife-to-be was very budget conscious in college; she didn’t eat much. I think it was #5 that won her over (especially when I carried a pot of home made chicken soup a half mile to her apartment when she was sick).
By Hamada El Kept, from an internationally traveling exhibit called Gaza Biennale 2025, showcasing displaced Palestinian artists, and those currently living under siege.
El Kept is now based in Brussels; some of the others are working from tents and shelters, in Gaza or in refugee camps.
I am rather disgusted that the US is complicit in the eradication of Gaza Palestinians. Just so tRump can build his Mediterranean resort. I’ve always been pro-Israel, but this is over the top.
I know, I’ve said that too. That was back when at least a modicum of restraint was being shown. This is clear-cutting; there will be nothing left, and the clear goal is there will be no one left. This really is genocide. Now, with tRump’s blessing, the Israelites are sweeping through leveling buildings and cutting off food and medicine.
TDS = blindly following without really listening to a your fearless leader. I don’t have that. I research and cross reference to get the facts. Everything I suspected about tRump, everything I figured he’d try, has happened. I don’t have ESP, anyone with open eyes can see it. Those with TDS are blind. This isn’t even politics, it’s current events, it’s people dying.
Gosh…. I didn’t recognize the pianist either… or several others I feel like I should have recognized.
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They are…
L-R (top): Actors Cary Grant, Faye McKenzie, Stan Laurel, Frances Langford, Pat O’Brien, Rise Stevens, Frank McHugh, (bottom) James Cagney, Charlotte Greenwood, and Groucho Marx, playing piano.
Honestly, I was only sure about Jimmy Cagney. Cary Grant is too cut off to recognize, but I’m surprised I couldn’t get at least Stan Laurel or Charlotte Greenwood.
The occasion was….
The Hollywood Victory Caravan. A group of movie stars toured 13 U.S. cities, entertaining to raise funds for Army and Navy relief during World War II. (Photo by Gene Lester/Getty Images)
I think this is the same one nighthawks posted, that I mentioned in connection with his more recent post about the 1916 Series, which was Boston vs Brooklyn.
I’d assumed, because of the crowds, that this was also a New York match-up, even if not the Yankees… But according to Google, if its 1919, it was the Chicago White Sox vs the Cincinnati Reds.
I’m amazed to see so many New Yorkers in the street…. But this was before so much other entertainment and communication, so baseball loomed large. A lot of people probably had no other way to get the news this fast.
Yes… I didn’t realise it was that year till I looked it up last night.
Probably the biggest scandal in baseball history… I’m no sports buff and even I know a little about it.
I was going to say something about it, but I was running out of steam, and had to go to bed…
I did wonder whether this crowd was actually looking for news about that, and not the game, but all the captions say they’re looking at a scorecard, and the scandal broke after the Series was over.
I took a quick look for dates, as well, but all I found was that the series started the 1st of October, and this photo was “in October”.
That’s inconclusive… But still…that’s a scorecard. I don’t know whether the Times ever displayed a news feed. They’d probably rather sell papers.
1919 wasn’t a good year to be gathering in large crowds. Spanish Flu was rampant. Of course, the government quashed all epidemic news, so these people wouldn’t know better.
I once held W. Wilson in high regard for his approach to the WWI peace treaty. His approach to the end of WWI was admirable, but there is so much more bad stuff; especially his handling of the influenza epidemic, that I can no longer recognize him as a great, or even good president.
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D’ya wanna play with me? Or are ya chicken!?
Wanna buy a duck…or whatever…
Chicken hound in training?
Just wants to prove she’s a retriever.
vintage fly fishing – 1919
There’s good eatin’ on a vintage fly…
kinda tough I heard
Nah! Ya gotta filet them first…
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There is definitely a story behind this that we can never fully know.
Destitute Missouri drought refugees… a family of five with no money, a sick baby and a broken down car, alongside US Highway 99, near Tracy, In San Joaquin County, California
1937 Photo by Dorothea Lange
I always hate when people put the baby or the kids on the traffic side of the shoulder… but I guess they’re doing it to be seen, so someone will stop to help. Still scary.
What did Dorothea do after snapping the picture?
Well, I have to admit… I wasn’t there.
But I can tell you this much… after she met a few dustbowl refugee families on the road, and took their pictures, Dorothea Lange brought their portraits to a San Francisco newspaper.
Their publication led to some of the first government aid for migrant camps.
She then left a successful career as a portrait photographer to work documenting poverty, instead, for the Farm Security Administration. This is one of those FSA photographs.
I’m sure as a woman in the 1930s, she didn’t make a lot of money for it
She took hundreds of pictures of abject poverty…. migrant workers, itinerant families. She talked to them and wrote down their stories, and captioned her pictures with the details. Some said she was the first person to take any interest in them.
Ansel Adams produced a book of her images that brought awareness to much of the country. Away from the west coast, people didn’t really know
There were something like a quarter million people added to the California population who were fleeing drought and disaster in other states, having heard that everyone was rich out here…. They begged for work along every highway.
Could she personally feed them all? Give them all enough money to make a difference? Could you? Do you?
She left her studio behind because she felt drawn to showing their plight… She eventually left her husband, and married an equally concerned professor who joined her, interviewing her subjects and writing about poverty.
They’re considered directly responsible for a lot of programs to help them.
She’s one of my heros.
Both sides of my family were fruit tramps.
Have heard the stories.
Both of my sides came from middle America and moved to California. In addition to picking and packing fruit, they did share-cropping farming, among many other jobs. Helped a lot of people who were worse off than they were. Drove 36 hours straight to pick up family who were destitute. I’ll bet your stories are fascinating as well.
Inspiring story!
Good for her (and for everyone else), thank you.
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That could easily be my father and his next oldest brother.
I searched it, and found out it was taken in the 50s.
It looks older than that, and hopefully, so was your father 🙂
It does look older than that.
This is pop and his brother.
That looks like the 50s too… but the guys are grownups, not kids.
Not too grown up. Looks like my young and stupid days [when I rode horsed as well as cars…]
Well, one of them must have gotten old enough in the 1950s to have become Happy³’s father, whenever that was, which I can’t remember.
Yeah… that sentence makes sense…. if you untwist it…
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Hallmark meets Johannes Vermeer?
OMG… I thought it was a joke, but no… er… I mean yes, it’s really supposed to represent the Vermeer painting.
They’re taking it (much too, IMHO) seriously.
Modeled in PVC, it’s one of a whole line of great paintings “reimagined” as tiny, cutesy, PVC figures by a Chinese company, Fujipark.
They’re not one of a kind… You can order this one in two sizes, on Etsy and Amazon…but I think “large” is only just over 3″ tall and costs $79!!
But don’t worry, I saw the small one on sale for only $25.99… though one site said it was sold out.
Plus you get 100% more pearl earrings than in the original painting!!!
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“What’s a ‘derailment’?”
A catastrophe?
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Some work better than others, of course.
You’ve gotta know the girl…. we all have different preferences.
For instance, #13, hanging around my old high school, would be pretty silly. Not only is the school 2,000 miles from me, but I graduated decades ago, and I believe it was demolished a few years later.
And sorry, but #11, having feet, probably isn’t gonna do, on its own..
Then again… I don’t require #4, honestly…. And sometimes #5 is enough.
Be careful … if you try #14 nowadays, I’m not the only “girl’ who might call the police.
Actually, I’m pretty fond of #12, when it comes right down to it.
It especially wouldn’t hurt to be Cary Elwes. But it’s okay if you’re not. I’m no Robin Wright either.
My wife-to-be was very budget conscious in college; she didn’t eat much. I think it was #5 that won her over (especially when I carried a pot of home made chicken soup a half mile to her apartment when she was sick).
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Are we to understand that she is “one in a melon?”
By Hamada El Kept, from an internationally traveling exhibit called Gaza Biennale 2025, showcasing displaced Palestinian artists, and those currently living under siege.
El Kept is now based in Brussels; some of the others are working from tents and shelters, in Gaza or in refugee camps.
I am rather disgusted that the US is complicit in the eradication of Gaza Palestinians. Just so tRump can build his Mediterranean resort. I’ve always been pro-Israel, but this is over the top.
Never Forget!
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hostages-portraits-hamas-captives-e7213e6262cdb9c51ab174326874538c
I know, I’ve said that too. That was back when at least a modicum of restraint was being shown. This is clear-cutting; there will be nothing left, and the clear goal is there will be no one left. This really is genocide. Now, with tRump’s blessing, the Israelites are sweeping through leveling buildings and cutting off food and medicine.
Unfortunately, your TDS overshadows your message. Work on cleaning up your message and you can be taken more seriously.
TDS = blindly following without really listening to a your fearless leader. I don’t have that. I research and cross reference to get the facts. Everything I suspected about tRump, everything I figured he’d try, has happened. I don’t have ESP, anyone with open eyes can see it. Those with TDS are blind. This isn’t even politics, it’s current events, it’s people dying.
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That has to be an Evel Knievel action figure glued to those handlebars.
I definitely would have done a few dry runs before putting all of that stuff on the table.
Maybe this is already try #173.
I don’t think the motorcyclist survived that one
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Gosh, how do I tell my hippo he can’t come?
Well, if he gets mad at you, you can bring one back to patch things up.
Tell them now that you’ve got them, you want to surprise them with something nice for Christmas in return.
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I never would have guessed the pianist without Google!
Gosh…. I didn’t recognize the pianist either… or several others I feel like I should have recognized.
Information from Getty Images:
Honestly, I was only sure about Jimmy Cagney. Cary Grant is too cut off to recognize, but I’m surprised I couldn’t get at least Stan Laurel or Charlotte Greenwood.
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She looks like a fun gal.
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Yup!
Um…. kinda seems like more of a joke than a puzzle.
Seriously.
This horse is different, similar expression though.
Easily!
well, it IS a bit on the easy side. … I think I’m going to load this
into my art program and see if I can make it a hair more difficult.
Uh oh.
….
Come on in, sweetie…. lotsa dog people here.
You’ll be fine.
she does look kinda nervous
Welcome to the first day of Fall.
Winter draws on.
As the old saying goes…. 😉
Whoops…
Yeah, with all that weight that high above the frame, you’ve got to make sure the truck is level before raising the bed, or this happens.
Hope the driver was OK after that flipping out from the cab…
Almost whoops…
Did he used to drive for Mack Sennett?
No idea how the second guy saved it.
This just happen to pop in my YouTube queue. Bats!
Crowd gathers for updates to the 1919 World Series.
I think this is the same one nighthawks posted, that I mentioned in connection with his more recent post about the 1916 Series, which was Boston vs Brooklyn.
I’d assumed, because of the crowds, that this was also a New York match-up, even if not the Yankees… But according to Google, if its 1919, it was the Chicago White Sox vs the Cincinnati Reds.
I’m amazed to see so many New Yorkers in the street…. But this was before so much other entertainment and communication, so baseball loomed large. A lot of people probably had no other way to get the news this fast.
1919 was the Chicago “Black Sox.”
Yes… I didn’t realise it was that year till I looked it up last night.
Probably the biggest scandal in baseball history… I’m no sports buff and even I know a little about it.
I was going to say something about it, but I was running out of steam, and had to go to bed…
I did wonder whether this crowd was actually looking for news about that, and not the game, but all the captions say they’re looking at a scorecard, and the scandal broke after the Series was over.
I took a quick look for dates, as well, but all I found was that the series started the 1st of October, and this photo was “in October”.
That’s inconclusive… But still…that’s a scorecard. I don’t know whether the Times ever displayed a news feed. They’d probably rather sell papers.
1919 wasn’t a good year to be gathering in large crowds. Spanish Flu was rampant. Of course, the government quashed all epidemic news, so these people wouldn’t know better.
https://archive.org/details/awakenings.1990.1080p.brrip.x264.aacetrg
I once held W. Wilson in high regard for his approach to the WWI peace treaty. His approach to the end of WWI was admirable, but there is so much more bad stuff; especially his handling of the influenza epidemic, that I can no longer recognize him as a great, or even good president.