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Stepping out of time Mother and baby
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The Library of Congress Mother and baby I claim no rights other than colorizing this image if you wish to use let me know Title Mother and baby of family of nine living in field on U.S. Route 70 in Tennessee, near Tennessee River Contributor Names Mydans, Carl, photographer United States. Resettlement Administration. Created / Published 1936 Mar. Subject Headings - United States--Tennessee - Roadside families--Tennessee Format Headings Nitrate negatives. Genre Nitrate negatives Notes - Title and other information from caption card. - Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. - More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi Medium 1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm. Call Number/Physical Location LC-USF33- 000553-M2 [P&P] LOT 1474 (corresponding photographic print) Source Collection Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Digital Id fsa 8a01634 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8a01634 Library of Congress Control Number 2017715458 Reproduction Number LC-DIG-fsa-8a01634 (digital file from original neg.) LC-USF33-T01-000553-M2 (b&w film dup. neg., 70mm size) LC-USF3301-000553-M2 (b&w film dup. neg., 4x5 size) Rights Advisory No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html Online Format image Description 1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm.

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.0930_23
03/10/18 1:07 AM GMT
This could be the poster for "hard times," Rob. The flour sack skirt and sweater with holes for her; and the hand me down and makeshift clothes for the kids.
What impresses me about this photo is the pride of the mother. You can see it in her posture and the cleanliness of her and the children. They might be poor, but their spirit has not been broken.
The understated coloring adds to their pride. Well done Rob.

TicK
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::corngrowth
03/10/18 10:38 AM GMT
Rob, Tick has hit the nail on its head by his above comment.
To me a touching time document of both hardship and proud too, enhanced by your perfect, not over dosed, colorization.
Very well done again, my friend!
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::Nikoneer
03/11/18 2:48 AM GMT
Route 70 in Tennessee is an 86-mile stretch of rural highway between Lebanon and Crossville, in north-central Tennessee. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was established in 1933 as one of President Roosevelt's Depression-era New Deal programs, providing jobs and electricity to the rural Tennessee River Valley--an area that spans seven states in the South. The TVA was envisioned as a federally-owned electric utility and regional economic development agency. It still exists today as the nation's largest public power provider. However, if you look at a map of the TVA and the basin it affected, you'll notice that it starts in southwestern Kentucky and swings south through Tennessee as far as northern Mississippi and Alabama, then back up through Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia, creating a wide, giant "U" shape. Route 70 is above the center of that "U", so the people living in the area where these folks were photographed did not benefit from the new deal the TVA was meant to provide. They would have kept these rags, and potentially had no health care for as long as they lived, and those lives were most likely shortened by the effects of malnutrition and other hardships. Hard to see.

-Nik
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::Nikoneer
03/11/18 11:31 AM GMT
My mother lived through this time as a child and there's a photo on my wall of her, her mother, and six of her siblings standing in front of a farm home they were renting (Grampa was off working somewhere and the other seven kids had yet to be born... my grandmother looks pooped in the photo). My mother and several of the girls have something in common with the woman in your photo, Rob... thoroughly washed and bright white bloomers, made of flour sacks, can be seen extending below their dresses. Back then you made do with what you had.

-Nik
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::tigger3
03/11/18 2:18 PM GMT
I agree with Tick's comment 100% excellent job using your technique.
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.icedancer
03/13/18 4:06 PM GMT
Such a rough life this shows us - the poor condition of clothing and sad looks one the faces
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::Vickid
03/16/18 5:45 PM GMT
Incredible the emotion that wells up inside of you when viewing a scene such as this. Your colorization makes it come alive, color choices and tones dramatize and connect us to this part of history. Truly makes one think, a lot, about such conditions.
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