Vintage photos of America’s rough rural past
The sepia-toned photos of rural America often evoke a nostalgic, simpler time. But the reality of rural America’s past is often romanticized and rarely shown in its full, unvarnished form.
In this collection you’ll explore the raw beauty and difficult truths in America’s rural past, showing parts of the lives of the people who built this country from the ground up.
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Company Paper Mill Town
Company Paper Mill Town, New Hampshire, 1939.
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Houses of Miners, Scotts Run, West Virginia
Smoke from Coke Ovens covering Houses of Miners, Scotts Run, West Virginia.
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Hale County, Alabama
A bed in a tenant farmhouse.
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Nipomo, California
Pea picker’s home in California.
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Dust Bowl Refugees
Oklahoma Refugees from the Dust Bowl, Looking for Work on the Cotton Fields.
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At Work in Garden
A family working in garden, Alabama.
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Camden, Alabama
Alabama rural life details.
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A Creek Baptism
Members of the Primitive Baptist Church in Kentucky, Attending a Creek Baptism by Submersion, August 1940.
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Pea Pickers, California
Migrant mother with her kids, 1936.
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