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Don't we all want to be seen in our best light? The morning sun, shadows, and towering Sycamores in the background show this WPA picnic pavilion in its best light. This gem has served the Genesee County community for more than 80 years.
The morning sun just reaches this vintage suspension walking bridge in the Richfield County Park, part of the Genesee County Parks. This little gem of a bridge was built in 1938 via the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal economic recovery program. It continues to be a magnet for senior high school pictures and weddings.
A picnic shelter built by the CCC during the Great Depression perches atop an overlook in the North Unit of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
The geologic wonder that is the North Unit of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, framed with the windowed CCC Shelter built high up on a bluff. The CCC used materials on hand...any question where they got this fieldstone?
Workers via the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built these structures in Richfield County Park, the first county park in Genesee County at the time, beginning in 1938. They are still standing and going strong. They attract light-chasers for many events, especially senior high school pictures and weddings. I like taking them in b/w, an ode to their time and a way to remember the efforts of the WPA workers and especially like the early and late day light that casts shadows on the river and structures.
Shadows Bridge - This suspension walking bridge spans the Flint River and was built in 1938 as part of FDR's WPA program. It is a site for weddings (as per the day before this photo), high school graduation photos, etc. In a word, this simple, sturdy bridge is a landmark in our area. I enjoy taking photos of it due to the light and shadow effects that one can find early and late in the day. The beginning of autumn color helped on this day.
This is an elevator corridor in The Guardian Building of downtown Detroit. Colorful ceramic tiles decorate the ceiling and the marble walls. The stained glass window is lighted from behind with electric lights.
Previous posts (in the first comment below) show the building facade and the entrance lobby. Several viewers have already noticed a significant theme throughout the building.
In Explore 1/19/2023 #117
My favorite local park just turned 90 this past Friday, Oct. 10. Here is a view of one of the early WPA picnic shelters with added features to make it completely accessible, a high value in our local county parks. I wrote the attached seven years ago, anticipating this time. And, I'm still above ground to enjoy it!
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One further note. As one sits inside this shelter, you get the same view as you will in the Big Meadows Lodge's Great Room at Shenandoah National Park, only the latter has side walls.
Here is a look at our vintage WPA pedestrian bridge spanning the Flint River in NE Genesee County. Black-and-white and sepia compositions make me feel like I'm back there in that time, in this case 1938.
Saskatchewan scenery.
Interestingly, the Great Depression era abandoned house in the background has an old handmade sign on it which reads "Hard Times" on one board and "House for Rent" on a board beneath that.
The ascent up this fieldstone staircase, circa 1938 via the WPA, in Richfield County Park was a study in autumn color, near peak here in SE Michigan, October 28, 2021.
Morning sunshine casts light and shadows across vintage WPA structures in Richfield County Park, Genesee County, MI. The suspension pedestrian bridge joined the south-north sides of the park in 1938, with a grand fieldstone staircase built down the hill to the Flint River bank. This photo shows the bottom of the staircase, the bridge, and the river. There are plans upcoming to renovate/update this iconic bridge, a popular spot for weddings and senior high school pictures.
Here is a classic rocks and trail look common in the CCC/WPA builds in those parks supported by their efforts in the 1930s. This one is from Richfield County Park in Genesee County, Michigan. It is similar to such configurations I saw in Shenandoah National Park, both founded in 1935.
I have unfortunately not had time to post on Flickr about my current Burn2 build while the main parts of the event (this past weekend) were still running. The build will remain up until this-coming Sunday though, so it's not too late to come visit if you like. Several people will have their builds up through this week, and there will still be some events, so there is much to see. :)
The current Burn2 theme is "Clockwork Frontier", though I went a little loose with my interpretation. My build is inspired by what came *after* the frontier times in America: the dust bowl era of the 1930s and 1940s. One of the photographers who captured it, Dorothea Lange, also became a large part of the inspiration for my build and my avatar. The cabin is a small gallery of some of her dust bowl photos, as well as a couple photos of Dorothea herself, taken by others.
If you are unfamiliar with the dust bowl, it took place in some parts of the middle of the country during the great depression. Lots of people had moved to parts of Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico in the 1890s in search of prosperity. Many were given government grants to set up homestead farms, and it was great in the beginning. Their farming practices and the ever-changing weather in the region combined to create a massive problem after a while, though. By the 1930s, the rains stopped coming. The soil became arid, and could no longer support the agriculture people had moved there for. The once-fruitful soils dried out and blew away, and contributed to massive dust storms which only intensified problems for the people there. A lot of folks suffered immeasurably in America during the great depression, and few places were hit harder than the dust bowl regions. It would later come to represent the tragedy of that time period as a whole.
If you'd like to learn more about the dust bowl, there are signs on both support posts on either side of the porch that link to videos about it. There's also a free gift in one of the grain sacks that contains the sky setting intended for this build (the one you can see in the photo). I made it extra dusty.
Here's what I used to make this build (that you can see or mostly see):
The shack/cabin: DRD - Hunters Retreat - Cabin
Windmill: Mansion creations - Antique Windmill
Fencing: This and That - rope fence
Barrel: [ Cabal ] - Water Barrel
Table: ~Nika & Bear~ - Garden table with box and soil
Grain sacks (retextured by me): Wolves Virtual Project - WVP FULL PERM Mesh: 3 sacks of wheat
Signs on the support beams on either side of the porch (sign portion textured by me): DRD - GG - Rustic Halloween boards (unlinked to use one of the boards)
Flag (retextured by me with a 1930s American flag -- only 48 stars back then): F-Factory - Waving flag: USA
Land form #1 (retextured): Little Branch - Young Tibetan Cherry - 4Seasons - Hill landform from this pack
Land form #2 (retextured): Studio Skye - Woodland Path
Crop rows: T-Spot Mesh - Dirt Rows for Vegetable Gardens
Water pump: The Black Forest - Hand Water Pump
Longhorns: Nature's Call - Steer Horns - Brown Leather Tooled Edges
Handcart: .:shamhat:. - wooden handcart
Wagon wheels: Argyle Builders - Wagon Wheel Set
Photo frames inside the cabin: [D]oppleganger - Bitch Framed Word Art (Pearl) [tinted]
Desk: Crocodoggle - Seaford Compact Desk - Beech
Location: The Dust Bowl @ Burn2
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I’m finally learning how to uses the Orton Effect properly. I used a slightly different technique today, and I had much less trouble with extreme colors. It’s much more muted here, but it still enhances the image.
These stairs are located off of the Eagle Creek exit from I-84 in the Columbia Gorge, Oregon. They were built by the FDR’s WPA in the 1930’s as part of a camping area and viewpoint near the Bonneville Dam.
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Digital ID: 482679. Abbott, Berenice -- Photographer. March 06, 1936
Notes: Code: I.A.5. Looking down Pike Street toward the Manhattan Bridge, street half in shadow, rubble in gutters, some traffic.
Source: Changing New York / Berenice Abbott. (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.
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Otis Oldfield (1890-1969)
Girders Above, no. 6 from Building the Bay Bridge (1936)
lithograph
De Young Museum, San Francisco. On loan from the California State Library
see Oldfoield's work here:
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just going through some old photos and came across this one that i love and wanted to share. this is my paternal grandparents... taken during the Great Depression of the 1930's in rural America.
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The Southern Railway being a bit brutal about the trading and economic conditions in 1931 Depression hit Britain with this advert reminding advertisers that their operating territory, with less manufacturing districts, was less affected by the downturn. Indeed, the Southern carried less good, in ratio, than the other Big Four railways and their services were more often geared to commuting into London carrying office workers, etc., whose business was generally less affected, and pleasure trips for Londoners going 'south'.
The advert, by D W Burley who was commissioned by the SR on several occassions, is very graphic - hitting home the North - South divide as well as contrasting the speeding, modern third rail electric train amongst twee suburban homes with dark santanic mills.
The advert appears in Modern Publicity, the Commercial Art Annual, for 1931.
I've seen this show plenty of times but never tried to shoot it. Pretty fun with all the changes, and the look the woman sitting beside me gave me when I busted out the 70-200 2.8 was pretty hilarious too.
I believe today is the last day of the FroKnowsPhoto contest so my Splash Mountain photo could use all the last minute votes it can get. You can vote at froknowsphoto.com/top41-may/#more-15643 Your help is most appreciated.
I hope everyone has a good weekend and thanks for looking!
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Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California,1936.By Dorothea Lange.
Note: Dorothea Lange (May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an influential documentary photographer. Lange is best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs captured the horrible and sad consequences of the Great Depression and greatly influenced the development of documentary photography.
•Courtesy of the Library of Congress :https://www.loc.gov/item/fsa2000000786/PP/
•Source Collection
Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection.
•FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
•Reproduction Number
LC-DIG-fsa-8b31646 (digital file from original neg.) LC-USF34-016106-C (b&w film nitrate neg.)
CLAPPER GIRL ~ Terra Haute, Indiana ~ Copyright ©2014 Bob Travaglione ~ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ~ www.FoToEdge.com 2006 Picture made on National Road (40 Highway) just outside Terre Haute, Indiana
Hawkes Bay Club.
The Club House is a Heritage Listed Building, category 1, which has existed through two World Wars, The Great Depression, the Napier Earthquake 1931, and many other momentous events in New Zealand / Aotearoa
Grandpa turned away from the 160-acre South Dakota family farm as the Great Depression, and a drouth turned what had provided decades of prosperity into uselessness. They loaded what they could into a car, turned their back on everything they knew, and headed toward Florida.
"One of the saddest things I remember was watching my Dad on the back porch, looking up at the sky and watching rain clouds pass over--but never a drop fell on his newly-planted fields...the only thing that grew were thistles. Then came the terrible dust storms, that felt as if it were actually cutting into your skin, " wrote my Mom, Lois, at left, age 7 in the photo above.
She recalled the "sad, empty feeling" at the Farm Sale in August 1936. "I finally went and layed down on my bed, which was about to be sold, and cried. They were selling lots of dishes and I asked Dad, 'but what will we eat on?' and he laughed and said, 'we'll probably have a trough.' I knew he was kidding and, even now, I'm sad that I made a hard day even more sad by being a crybaby."
The family never made it to Florida--from left to right, Lois, Lucy, Christian and Jenny--made a home in the Twin Cities. "Dad often said that leaving South Dakota was one of the best things he ever did," wrote Mom, "I have noticed in my own life that so often sad or bad things can be the catalyst for some very positive changes."
Children and sugar beets by L C Harmon.
( Records of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture.)
● Child labor in the United States during the late 30s and early 40s.
Gertrude Folks Zimand, General Secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, in "The Changing Picture of Child Labor,"published in 1944 in the Journal of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (pages 83-91), reported that the 1940 census showed, among 14- to 15-year-olds, a total of 4,347,665 attending school, and a total of 209,347 gainfully employed (no number was reported for children ages 7-14 who were not in school but were gainfully employed, but the number of these children attending school was 15,034,695; the numbers for 16- to 17-year-olds were 3,361,206 in school and 662,967 gainfully employed). The term "Gainfully employed" included full- and part-time work, either in industry or agriculture. There was some overlap in these numbers because some children were in school but were also working, at least part-time. But according to Zimand, 64 percent of the 14- to 15-year-olds and 83 percent of the 16- to 17-year-olds who were working were out of school and were therefore presumably working full time. teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/23929
●B&W Image source National Archives: www.archives.gov/press/press-kits/1930-census-photos
August 17, 1936. Blythe, California. "Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside. They hope to work in the cotton fields. There are seven in family. The official at the border inspection service said that on this day, 23 carloads and truckloads of migrant families out of the drought counties of Oklahoma and Arkansas had passed through from Arizona entering California." Medium-format negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration.
Library of Congress photo.
The 1930's can be viewed as the single most progressive area in the world of fashion and photography as the two merged into one cohesive genre. The purpose of this shoot was to recreate the era in which consumerism drove the glamor of holly wood into they of the public despite The Great Depression...
Mic courtesy of TreeLand studios
Strobist:
white lightning key and fill lights stacked just to right of the camera
large soft box above a smaller one angled upwards
Digital ID: 1260116. Compton, Negro sharecropper and his wife stripping and grading tobacco. He has a Negro landlord who lives in Mebane, part of a very prosperous Negro settlement, region of North Carolina. September 1939.. Wolcott, Marion Post -- Photographer. September 1939
Notes: Original negative #: 52055-D
Source: Farm Security Administration Collection. / North Carolina. / Marion Post Wolcott. (more info)
Repository: The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Photographs and Prints Division.
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Lyrics by Yip Harburg; music by Jay Gorney (1931)
Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower, up to the sun, brick, and rivet, and lime;
Once I built a tower, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
Taken for Our Daily Challenge: LYRICS / POETRY INSPIRED, the topic for Wed Feb 15, 2012
The main pumps of the Esso Station of Arthurdale, West Virginia. This service station was one of several business cooperative ventures established in 1934 by the Mountaineer Craftsmen Cooperative Association of Scotts Run. The township of Arthurdale was one of several New Deal communities established under the Federal Homestead Act and operated by the Federal Government until it liquidated all community assets in 1947. The gas station continued to run under private ownership until it closed in the late 1970’s.
The last price--21.5 cents per gallon.
Canon EOS M with EF-M 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 IS STM
Copyright © 2013 by cooper gary. All rights reserved.
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Been going back through the archives rescanning some old work and rediscoving some previously unprinted/scanned negs. This was one I never scanned or printed, more to come...
A reminder to Americans that world events don't just affect us, The Soup Kitchen, Paris (1929) is a stark image that The Great Depression was a worldwide phenomenon.
Photo by Roger Schall: cdn.loeildelaphotographie.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/...
new cut (& torn) paper collage .... 8" X 10" .... #collage #papercollage #analogcollage #handmade #handmadecollage #handcutcollage #collageonpaper #collageart #traditional #traditionalcollage #paperscissorsglue #cutnpaste #collageartists #FDR #thegreatdepression #happyinspiteofit #celebration
So you've seen my selfy test shots!
heres what the set up was for.
concept based off of the 1930's golden age of radio!
with the distinct class the white collar house wives of the 30's became the first to fall into modern consumerism. with the debut of vogue magazine nearly a decade before photography and fashion merged into a cohesive genre, solidifying commercial photography as a fine art. these three young ladies jobs were to reproduce the trends of the era in virtually all aspects of their appearance.
mic complements of treeland studios
strobist:
two white lightings set at half power stacked on top of each other.
large soft box for up key light
and smaller angled underneath as a fill
Original Caption: Photograph of a Workman on the Framework of the Empire State Building, 1936
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 69-RH-4K-1
Photographer: Hine, Lewis
Subjects:
The New Deal
Tennessee Valley Authority
Works Progress Administration
Work Portraits
The Great Depression
Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/518290
Repository: Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001.
For information about ordering reproductions of photographs held by the Still Picture Unit, visit: www.archives.gov/research/order/still-pictures.html
Reproductions may be ordered via an independent vendor. NARA maintains a list of vendors at www.archives.gov/research/order/vendors-photos-maps-dc.html
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